Alternatives Quote by Thurston Moore

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

— Kurt Cobain

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

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

— Limmy

Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.

— Steve Buscemi

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

The great countercultural movement that we all know from the mid-1960s was epitomised by popular music. But within a few years another shift happened:…

— Tony Robinson

The formats have changed so much, and even if you look at alternative music today, most of it isn't really that alternative. It's just…

— Perry Farrell

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

— Bocafloja

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and…

— Bob Dylan

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

— Michelle Shocked

The mainstream consumed our culture.

— Richard Ashcroft

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.

— Ashton Kutcher