Art Quote by Kevin Abstract

It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.

— Cassie Ventura

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

I would say that everyone that you see who is successful in the mainstream, at the top of Billboard, who has a Top 40…

— Immortal Technique

Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground".

— Eddy de Clercq

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

— Felix Buxton

So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.

— Kool Keith

I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre.

— Lecrae

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

— Corinne Bailey Rae

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

Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to…

— Steve Aoki

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 Angelique

I think there's so many amazing LGBTQ artists, ranging from commercial to underground, that are influencing people at large.

— MNEK