Being Quote by Varg Vikernes

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

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I've made some leaps and bounds as an underground artist.

— Xzibit

But you was underground, and I was mainstream. I live the life now, that we would daydream. My only wish is you come enjoy…

— Nicki Minaj

I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm…

— Emily Haines

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

— Felix Buxton

I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.

— Janelle Monae

I've worked as a singer in metal bands for over ten years now, so I've definitely kind of put in my time building that…

— Alissa White-Gluz

I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me.

— Chantal Kreviazuk

I'm an underground mix-tape artist who's had a level of commercial success.

— Chamillionaire

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

And I've found that, you know, the world of music is so vast and so broad, but at the same time, it's easy to…

— Dianne Reeves

It's not that I don't have talent. I've had four gold albums in Scandinavia and they never heard of me as anything but a…

— Barbi Benton