Birth Quote by Tony Robinson

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

The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid…

— Saul Williams

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

The '60s were a time of great change in American music.

— Alexandra Patsavas

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

“The possibility of a musical modernity that was not characterized by sensationalism”

— Alain Frogley

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

— Kurt Cobain

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to…

— Renzo Rosso

I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think…

— Billy Corgan

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

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

— Bing Crosby

“songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different…

— Bob Dylan