Black Quote by David Bowie

There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is…

— Dawn Richard

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really…

— Machine Gun Kelly

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…

— Michael Azerrad

There is nothing I like more than pure underground music

— Kurt Cobain

The underground always has the best ideas. Sometimes those underground artists transcend and make it to the mainstream, but most of the time, the…

— Kevin Abstract

If I stayed underground, the music stays underground. There's no other way of being successful, or bringing a certain type of music into the…

— La Roux

When bands come from that underground scene and go into the mainstream, people just hate it. And it blows my mind. If you're saying…

— Laura Jane Grace

The underground scene is still a cool way to meet a lot of cool people, see a lot of interesting bands and get a…

— Jello Biafra

I didn't expect my popularity to be a mainstream thing, 'cause I'd only ever been an underground artist.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

The bottom line with a lot of bands that funk is being applied to is that they don't really listen to funk and aren't…

— Mike D

We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

— Lee Ranaldo

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

— Kendrick Lamar