Mainstream Quotes

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into more mainstream media!

Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream.

Radio helps DJs break into a whole different audience. Radio has so much power. And that's my mission: to not only break into the EDM audience, but to break also into the mainstream audience.

Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make

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

The Democratic Party has formed a perfect union with the mainstream media to scare Republicans, to say that they're gonna be called racists or sexists or homophobic if they reach out to minorities.

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

Donald Trump's fought, quite frankly, the entire mainstream media, who is always, you know, who's always counted him out, never thought he could do this, who's always put him down.

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.

Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

Fascism allegation [to Donald Trump] is not coming from the left. This is coming from the right. It's coming from inside the Republican Party and from within mainstream conservative thought.

I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

My mother always tells me, 'Nathan, you're very much a geek, but your strength is that you look mainstream. So no one can tell just by looking at you.' I think this is true.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to do it on my own terms, not become a standard producer.

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

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.

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

I think pro wrestling doesn't seem to get a lot of mainstream attention until somebody dies.

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write

A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.