Underground Quotes

290 Underground quotes by 250 unique authors

When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only our country safer… — Martin O'Malley
I like to go through the zine sections of local bookstores when on the road and have found a lot of really great kind of… — Jeff VanderMeer
Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual… — David Byrne
I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that. — Missy Elliot
I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me. — Martin Gore
I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground. — Martin Gore
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river… — Cyril Connolly
I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should.… — Billy Corgan
What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel. — Andrew Cuomo
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. — Brian Eno
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was… — Herbie Hancock
Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes. — Kathleen Hanna
For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded… — Lauryn Hill
I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal… — Vanilla Ice
I've had some really, really wild fun nights in Vegas. I ended up on stage once with this band, The Digital Underground, doing the Humpty… — Ashton Kutcher
It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually… — Talib Kweli
I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought… — Courtney Love
I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks. — John Mayer
A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in… — Rachel McAdams
Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow… — Joyce Meyer
If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind… — Unknown Author
As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop… — Unknown Author
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and… — Alan Moore
I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and… — Michael Moore
It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's… — Elon Musk

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