Alternatives Quote by K. D. Lang

I mean, maybe I'm alternative in that my stuff's not mainstream, doesn't want to be mainstream, could never be mainstream.

— Limmy

I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

— Nick Lowe

My music isn't mainstream music.

— Benjamin Clementine

I certainly have a fascination with pop music as a musical form, not necessarily as a lifelong commitment. I guess you could say I'm…

— Todd Rundgren

I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.

— Pharrell Williams

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

— Mika

I am so all over the place with my music taste, it's ridiculous. It is! I mean, I find myself listening to weird things…

— Taylor Lautner

I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the…

— Jenny Hval

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an…

— Zooey Deschanel

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

— Kurt Cobain

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?

— Bill Maher

A lot of people get into alternative music as part of their identity. It's something that isn't the mainstream, that their brothers and sisters…

— Chris Cornell