Mainstream Quotes · Page 4

There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.

— Anurag Kashyap

The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks.

— Bruce Jackson

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

— David Remnick

You don't need mainstream media outlets, the big TV looks, or the magazine covers.

— G-Eazy

The mainstream media hears what it wants to hear and has its own narratives.

— Stephen F. Cohen

I think R&B is way bigger in America. It's not really that mainstream in the U.K.

— Ella Mai

I think pro wrestling doesn't seem to get a lot of mainstream attention until somebody dies.

— CM Punk

In terms of mainstream media it's very difficult to break through if you're on the left.

— John McDonnell

I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in…

— Chance the Rapper

People love drama, and if you aren't really interested in perpetuating that, it keeps you from exploding on a mainstream stage. I'm…

— DJ Shadow

'Get Out' definitely brought it to the mainstream, but you can look back at the original 'Night of the Living Dead' and…

— Misha Green

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile…

— Bentley Little

Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that…

— Nick Park

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel…

— Zooey Deschanel

Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

— Dennis Miller

The IPCC - and all the mainstream media and environmental extremists who cite it uncritically - really have become a joke in…

— Joseph L. Bast

I know artists that have tried for a long time in the Christian industry and then they were on a TV show…

— Anthony Evans

Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money,…

— Geoff Mulgan

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

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really…

— Thom Yorke

At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that…

— Thomas G. Stemberg

Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so…

— Nas

I agree with Ru that it'll never be mainstream, because mainstream means everybody knows it, everybody loves it, everybody accepts it. That's…

— Michelle Visage

While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react…

— Rebecca Solnit

“If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a…

— Tom Robbins

Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I…

— Kathleen Hanna

There was a time when my taste in music was mainstream, for example - people like Jimi Hendrix - who I really…

— Gordon Raphael

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down…

— Charles Stross

It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him…

— James Berardinelli

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

— Rachel Maddow

I guess in general, because it's such a popular trend in mainstream American pop, that there's been some kind of negative reaction…

— Chris Baio

Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the…

— Peter Adamson

I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

— Andy Grove

I think people do not associate me with the mainstream.

— Milind Soman

I think it would be awesome for us to do collaborations and to try to gel with the mainstream.

— Avi Kaplan

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

— David Cronenberg

The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.

— Kendrick Lamar

It's important for a gospel artist not to try to be mainstream.

— Kirk Franklin

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I choose to be different because everything else is mainstream

— Jeremy Limn