I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying…

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music…

— Pat Metheny

Everything changed after 'Love Shack.' We went 'mainstream.' 'Love Shack' set what people viewed us as, because a lot of people didn't realize we…

— Fred Schneider

When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where…

— Timothy Noah

One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the…

— Arnold Beichman

I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two…

— Noam Chomsky

Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk…

— Thurston Moore

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as…

— Avicii

I feel there is a great spiritual awakening on the planet right now. More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to…

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

I think mainstream music got its worst around 1998 when bands like Smashing Pumpkins with Adore, Marilyn Manson with Mechanical Animals and even PJ…

— Marc Broude

Black people are not often considered mainstream.

— Lamman Rucker

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

— Carter Burwell

I went mainstream in a major way with the song "Let's Dance." And what I found I had done was put a box around…

— David Bowie

Comic books have gone mainstream. The audience is there.

— John Wesley Shipp

If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on…

— Rachel Maddow

In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than…

— Abhishek Bachchan