Mainstream Quotes · Page 13

I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?

— John Mulaney

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the…

— Jean M. Auel

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

— Preston Manning

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

— Dave Van Ronk

Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.

— Virginia Foxx

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make…

— Nigel Farage

There are major advantages to remaining out of the radio for a long time before we have something that crosses into the…

— Andrew Wyatt

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'

— Bharati Mukherjee

Me as a person...I'm really laid back, I'm really an on my own time type of person so its just kind of…

— Jhene Aiko

I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working…

— Lauren Greenfield

I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular…

— Danny Boyle

People don't analyze Britney Spears' lyrics 'cause they're so obvious, you know? And her image is so kind of blah and mainstream…

— Juliana Hatfield

More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to…

— Michelle Alexander

It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and…

— Simon Armitage

I think, in general, the sports I've enjoyed covering the most have been the offbeat ones. The more popular, mainstream, the less…

— Mitch Albom

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two…

— Joe Barton

It's pretty clear that Hillary Clinton was a deeply, deeply flawed alternative. She had the wrong combination of the internal political chops…

— Jonathan Chait

Whether we're talking about what the role of the government is, what you think of the United Nations, political leaders or how…

— Michael C Dawson

Other than areas of high-tech, fracking is probably one of the largest areas where concentrated growth in America's economy is taking place.…

— Rush Limbaugh

What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches,…

— Steve Tesich

Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done…

— Pam Grier

I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't…

— Chrissie Hynde

A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.

— Margo Price

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

— Dee Dee Ramone

I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics

— Robert Sarvis

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream…

— Jack Kilby

My idea is to integrate black stars into mainstream stars. It hasn't been explored properly. That's what Im doing in Hollywood.

— Russell Simmons

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

— William Hurt

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

— Larry David

People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their…

— Eileen Myles

I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.

— Princess Superstar

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

— George W. S. Trow

President Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi represent what mainstream America is rejecting about Washington, D.C. And that is this out…

— Sharron Angle

A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside…

— Marco Brambilla

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to…

— Barbara Olson

It's great to see Latino music coming to the mainstream, but at the same time, there are also a lot more styles…

— Jonas Blue

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

— Anurag Kashyap

The dynamics of the Taliban now appear to be very different and complex, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they attack governments…

— Noam Chomsky

Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it…

— Courtney Love

Mainstream pop is a bit more introspective and emotional now, like how Adele's 'Someone Like You' is everyone's favorite song, and it's…

— Romy Madley Croft