Underground Music Quotes

• I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

  Vanilla Ice

  Real, Kids, Years

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• There is nothing I like more than pure underground music

  Kurt Cobain

  Pasta, Pure

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• Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur.

  Axwell

  Way, Dance Music

  "The D.J. Maestros Axwell and Ingrosso Aim to Shake the Rafters". www.nytimes.com. April 1, 2015.

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• In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.

  Michael Azerrad

  Powerful, Stupid, Past

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• In underground music, there seems to be this real inability for people to express themselves in any kind of heroic or mythological way. There's this idea that we're all normal joes, and that creating a persona onstage or having schtick is somehow false and misleading and evil.

  Ian Svenonius

  Real, Ideas, Creating

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

  Janelle Monae

  People, Trying, Feels

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• Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Space, Feminism

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

  Kendrick Lamar

  Two, People, Shapes

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• If you want to talk about EDM, let’s talk about Detroit underground music, Chicago house and let’s talk about all the things that got us to this place. We all get on the train of dance music. We need to all respectfully look through the carriages that have come before us and realize how we got here.

  Goldie

  Edm, House, Chicago

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• I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth type of stuff. But that was the stuff I was attracted to.

  David Pajo

  Growing Up, Stuff, Would Be

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• My parents didn't really restrict my movement, so I got involved in the underground music scene and the activism scene; I was doing some volunteering in food relief. I spent a lot of time throughout the city in poor areas, even though my family lived in a wealthy area.

  Jess Row

  Cities, Volunteer, Parent

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As far as my New York influence, one thing I'm proud of in my career is, I rep Brooklyn, New York all day. But people don't look at my music as New York music. People consider my music underground music.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Careers, People

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.

  Skrillex

  Artist, Going Away, Computer

  "Skrillex Talks About the Making of His Sci-Fi Psychological Thriller 'Red Lips' Video". Interview with Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. November 30, 2015.

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• I'm not a pop rapper. That's nothing against pop music - I love pop music. I've jumped on pop records for people and still will, but I'm not a pop artist. I didn't start from there. I started in underground music. I consider myself an underground artist, as well as a producer.

  Juicy J

  Rapper, Artist, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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