Underground Quotes

290 Underground quotes by 250 unique authors

In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and… — Michael Azerrad
Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground. — Nabeshima Naoshige
It's not that I literally think I'm a fearie. It's just that I feel so different from most people. And this idea of a race… — Francesca Lia Block
Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers… — Peter Bart
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse… — Phil Anselmo
But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear… — Margaret Atwood
I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally. — Janelle Monae
Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur — Axwell
I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream. — John Ashbery
I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains… — Theodore Roethke
There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground… — Howard Thurman
The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears… — James Fallows
Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground. — Euripides
Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day,… — Aristotle
It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious… — Bertrand Russell
I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I… — Jonathan Lethem
When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went… — Laini Taylor
When we talk of flood control, we usually think of dams and deeper river channels, to impound the waters or hurry their run-off. Yet neither… — Hal Borland
The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no… — Randy Wayne White
At the height of rush hour, people on the London underground actually say "excuse me." Imagine what would happen if you tried an insane stunt… — Dave Barry
It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their… — Germaine Greer
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. — Diane Wakoski
I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so… — Lester Bangs
So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home. — Anthony Braxton

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