Mainstream Quotes

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms.

My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.

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

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

I preferred rock when it was in the dark, when it was a secret between me and the audience, when it wasn't mainstream.

If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.

I'm mainstream. Always have been.

By aspiring to join the mainstream rather than figuring out the ways we need to change it, we risk loosing our gay and lesbian souls in order to gain the world.

I never had a desire to leave mainstream Hollywood. And still don't think that I've left mainstream Hollywood.

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.

I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.

The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.

The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.

Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.

I like that idea that what I do might be mainstream. Might be.

I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?

I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.

I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying out of the mainstream really.

I think Hollywood... well, there is no Hollywood anymore so let's just call it the mainstream since the business is no longer Hollywood producing its own films and then distributing, they just distribute.

The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.

Organizations are about putting ideas through one or more types of gating procedures. In this way, ideas go from being a whim to becoming a project, from being a "skunk works" effort to becoming an official, mainstream effort, from being an unfounded program to a funded process, and so on.

If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may never be super-mainstream.

Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.

Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.

The music I make is very underground-sounding, it doesn't sound like it goes into the charts. It doesn't sound like it's trying to fit into today's style. So I think I have already a vibrating tool to an art form that isn't the mainstream. I'm very outside of the mainstream in my taste of music.

Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.

I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.

Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.

There's the kind of people like me, who spent years in India, have learned Sanskrit, have done this work deeply - they probably say for lifetimes - now interfacing [with the mainstream].

Damn it, if just 5% of people got motivated in some direction, and it doesn't necessarily have to be what I believe in, but if they just got motivated and stopped getting their political ideologies from the mainstream media, they would go out and figure out what they want.

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.

Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today.

Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.

On domestic policy, Donald Trump agreed with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Wall Street bailout, the TARP bailout of big bank. I think the government ought to be standing with mainstream, with working men and women. And then you put on top of that the ethical issues, whether it is refusing to release his taxes. And that's a real problem.

Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.

More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.

Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.