Mainstream Quotes

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

I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.

People love drama, and if you aren't really interested in perpetuating that, it keeps you from exploding on a mainstream stage. I'm totally fine with that.

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

I think the best person in her [Hillary Clinton's] campaign is mainstream media.

I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

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

People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend.

I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."

Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

You can never be too sexy for mainstream television.

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

It's better to be the largest independent band from Brazil instead of be the smallest mainstream band.

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].

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.

There are those people who don't want change. Well there needs to be a coalition for change amongst the hard-working mainstream majority of the country to crack on and sort out Britain's problems.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party.

Donald Trump has shown us who he is. And we ought to believe him. He is taking a hate movement mainstream.

I'm really into mainstream rap and R&B, but I never saw myself as intertwined in that world.

It's not about mainstream global domination. I make clothes that I can't find. I made a few pieces and Lupe Fiasco bought a pair of trousers I'd made, and a few other artists picked some up.

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

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

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.

All of us black comedians are trying to be mainstream, but you don't want to lose the edge.

Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

I like Plutarch because I've read him forever, and I know that he's incredibly funky, even though his mainstream image is as Mr. Unfunky.

I believe prayer for our nation has never been more important as we witness an accelerating anti-Christian fervor in the so-called mainstream of our culture.

The IPCC - and all the mainstream media and environmental extremists who cite it uncritically - really have become a joke in the scientific community.

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.

I know a lot of mainstream hip-hop people, have been listening to things like Aphex Twin for years. When somebody first played me some of that album, I was just like, "Woah!"

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense.

Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

I think that you take the path of least resistance. And for a lot of people comedy is that path. I mean, even against mainstream, it's easier to sell a comedy than a drama.

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

Here's why I like geek culture: People like what they like because they like it. They're not trying to fit into any mainstream likes or dislikes.

Sometimes I get more of a mainstream crowd that just is not moving to what I'm playing. I have to have crossover secret weapons.