Mainstream Quotes · Page 9

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as…

— Willam Belli

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

— John Mulaney

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to…

— Anonymous

Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the…

— Mohammad Marandi

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

— Andrew Wyatt

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

— Dave Van Ronk

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

— Nigel Farage

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

— Virginia Foxx

Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent…

— Josh Fox

The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want…

— Chris Robinson

I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are…

— Nancy Kates

When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly…

— Dan Hill

What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many…

— Pete La Roca

To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage…

— Charles Stross

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

— Abhishek Bachchan

I'm really going off of watching John Waters speak one time and I remember he just kind of talked and it was…

— Kathleen Hanna

The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first…

— Oliver D. Crisp

Hollywood does seem like the holy grail. Not to diminish anything from other countries, but it's the most mainstream and hardest to…

— Eline Powell

Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take…

— Hillary Clinton

MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the…

— Ann Powers

Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Sometimes, you just have to realize, I'm not doing stuff that is really mainstream stuff, and to try and put it out…

— Rob Zombie

I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.”

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Timothy Noah

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the…

— James Gray

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

— Dolly Parton

“So, fuck ’em, we say. Fuck the mundane of Mainstream, the elitists of Literature. We’re GENRE FICTION and proud of it, proud…

— Hal Duncan

I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream…

— Steve Coogan

It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that…

— Dan Kaminsky

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

— Kevin Smith

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

— Iain Duncan Smith

I've always believed in representation within the mainstream. Integration rather than segregation.

— Chris McCausland

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from…

— Eric Liu

Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.

— Sylvester Stallone

I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.

— Ryan Reynolds

Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed…

— Washed Out

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at…

— Henry Rollins