Underground Quotes · Page 5

So I know rumors do come around, suggest you to put it underground

— Craig Williams

I've made some leaps and bounds as an underground artist.

— Xzibit

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

— Jello Biafra

If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary.

— Russell Smith

Pimps see (C) the wings on the underground kings.

— Lupe Fiasco

I'm an underground mix-tape artist who's had a level of commercial success.

— Chamillionaire

I made the choice to go into the world of underground poker.

— Molly Bloom

“London created the Underground, and the Underground created London.”

— John Lanchester

“But this time of the year she was in her vaults, underground, and here she resided alone, spending most of her life…

— Bruce Robinson

The hip-hop that we grew up on is dead to a certain degree. I'm trying to keep it alive though, it's alive…

— Sean Price

“This would be something never before seen in the history of the universe: an underground shooting star.”

— Randall Munroe

Success happened for me when I dropped my first major label album for Def Jam, 'Live From The Underground.'

— Big K.R.I.T

I did the underground scene growing up. I lived in Albany, New York so I'd go see Stigmata, Hatebreed, Murphy's Law so…

— Maria Brink

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw…

— Anthony Bourdain

If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.

— Elinor Wylie

You can sit next to somebody on the underground, and you can look at them quite intensely, but you can never, ever…

— Tilda Swinton

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the…

— Andrew Motion

I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam…

— Paul Weller

When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it…

— Moby

I'm really interested in how you create a whole new economy of recycling. It's literally the 'underground economy.' All this stuff that…

— Peter Senge

I have quite a bit of experience reporting on corporate behavior, both doing it with independent operations in early in my career,…

— Lowell Bergman

When I was doing dancehalls, nobody was doing well in dancehalls. Dancehalls was not mainstream music that was blazing charts and knocking…

— Shaggy

At least here in Stockholm if you go out to any of our 4 metal clubs and talk to ten guys you…

— Johan Hegg

It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that…

— Andy Daly

In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some…

— J. Cole

Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being…

— Aisha Hinds

2Pac was a homie, y'know, we met him through the Digital Underground squad.

— B-Real

I was in the underground until I left Germany.

— Klaus Fuchs

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen…

— Jodi Picoult

We met [with Massimo Pupillo] many years ago in the halcyon days of the underground avant-prog math-rock scene when I was playing…

— Daniel O'Sullivan

We've become an underground thing for kids, because we never got the love our peers got back in the day. Kids are…

— Steve Lukather

“All I wanted was to be part of an underground world where the sun doesn't shine, there are no serenades, and the…

— Hitomi Kanehara

If you've never been to a live wrestling show, you need to go to one. To understand 'Lucha Underground,' you need to…

— John Morrison

Preppy never goes away. It just has its moment every 15 years, and then it goes back underground.

— Michael Bastian

A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

— Travie McCoy

Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.

— Miguel

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

— Thomas Overbury

I had three older sisters whose record collections I borrowed, so I was listening to The Velvet Underground as well as Bach…

— Johann Johannsson

“Grover shuddered. “Satyrs hate going underground. No searcher would ever try going in that place. No flowers. No sunshine. No coffee shops!”

— Rick Riordan

We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of…

— Jon Crosby