Mainstream Quote by Kendrick Lamar

When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That would defy…

— Bryce Dessner

Throughout hip-hop people have been putting different elements with different types of music.

— Girl Talk

I think the artists are really the face of the music they make. It's no longer the genre that dictates it.

— Dua Lipa

I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

— Pharrell Williams

Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.

— Matt Berninger

Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface.

— Felix Buxton

Times are tough in the music industry, and now more than ever we need people like the team at Paste looking out for artists…

— Cary Brothers

I don't know that there's a division between American and British, European, South American, Asian sensibilities when it comes to rock n' roll or,…

— Greil Marcus

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

— Lee Ranaldo

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

The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling…

— Sasha Frere-Jones

That's interesting: people deriving their identities from their music.

— Ethan Coen