Advantage Quote by Joe Budden

Mainstream's never appealed to me, really. I mean, I've become popular over the years in certain areas. But mainstream, you know, I would rather…

— RuPaul

There's always something special about being down with something before it goes mainstream.

— Jason Johnson

I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

— Jack Antonoff

We've never gone mainstream. Once you've been around on TV for 10 years, people will assume that you're mainstream because they recognise you.

— Vic Reeves

It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next…

— Billy Corgan

I don't ever wanna be mainstream.

— Katya Zamolodchikova

Being mainstream is fun.

— Mabel

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as…

— Avicii

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and…

— Ice T

You have to embrace trends; it's crazy to think you can live above it. Like digital, like selling online, like social networks - if…

— Antoine Arnault

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

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.

— Paul Beatty