Angry Quote by Michael Azerrad

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

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

— Felix Buxton

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the…

— Thurston Moore

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

On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.

— Bocafloja

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

In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only…

— Daniel Barenboim

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

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

There is nothing I like more than pure underground music

— Kurt Cobain

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

— Lee Ranaldo

People think the world of music is so great, and it's just not. It's so boring, the way music is conceived and then declawed…

— Josh Tillman