Top 100 Quotes About Underground
#1. I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked back to the Velvet Underground and the Stooges and the Modern Lovers as well. But that was back when Television were punk, and the Talking Heads were punk.
Dean Wareham
#2. This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
Walker Percy
#3. 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.
Sasha Frere-Jones
#4. 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 a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies.
Dawn Angelique
#5. Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory.
Eugene Mirman
#6. Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#7. There is nothing I like more than pure underground music
Kurt Cobain
#8. When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous.
Moby
#9. Oh, goody," Chas whispered. "I hate going to the doctor. I'd rather be back underground in the water playing Ophelia.
Lia Habel
#10. Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived ... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.
Andrew Motion
#11. This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.
Lauren Oliver
#12. If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is - he's the reason you all live underground.
Eugene Mirman
#13. Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth,
Christophe Agou
#14. Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.
Barbara Holland
#15. So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.
Kool Keith
#16. It's like he's training you for battle or something." Her eyes lit up. "Hey, maybe he has some underground fight club and he's grooming you!"
"That's it, Steph. Definitely.
Jessica Shirvington
#17. You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
Aimee Bender
#18. The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
P. J. O'Rourke
#19. I have always been sure that if England were ever occupied its people would find the organization of underground cells an almost effortless means of self-expression.
Geoffrey Household
#20. 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
#21. I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell. (Jace)
Cassandra Clare
#22. Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM, how many of those cultural standpoints are the same?
Seth Troxler
#23. How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?
Virginia Woolf
#24. But do you know what: I am convinced that we underground folk ought to be kept on a curb. Though we may sit forty years underground without speaking, when we do come out into the light of day and break out we talk and talk and talk....
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#25. Because if the Masters of the World exist, they can only be underground: this is a truth that all sense but few dare utter. Perhaps
Umberto Eco
#26. Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.
Tomas Kalnoky
#27. Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.
Tom Udall
#28. For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.
Lavie Tidhar
#29. Chernobyl is like the war of all wars. There's nowhere to hide. Not underground, not underwater, not in the air.
Svetlana Alexievich
#30. I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.
Juicy J
#31. The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.
Tim Powers
#32. This would be something never before seen in the history of the universe: an underground shooting star.
Randall Munroe
#33. Because a soul never truly loses hope until hope has turned to ashes, or has been buried six feet underground.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#34. Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.
Glen Robinson
#35. an Underground train roared and rattled, driving a ghost-wind along the platform, which scattered a copy of the tabloid Sun into its component pages, four-colour breasts and black and white invective scurrying
Neil Gaiman
#36. The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. Money has trickled through this room for years and years, as if through an underground cavern, crusting and hardening like stalactites into these forms.
Margaret Atwood
#37. - You gave me a dead frog for my birthday!
- To remind you we all die and end up rotting underground eaten by maggots so we should enjoy our birthdays while we have them. I found it thoughtful.
Soman Chainani
#38. I want to sell tracks but at the same time I want to stay true to the music I like. This is why I love the underground scene because they can stay true to what they want to do.
Rahki
#39. Walking through Harlem first thing in the morning was like being a single drop of blood inside an enormous body that was waking up. Brick and mortar, elevated train tracks, and miles of underground pipe, this city lived; day and night it thrived.
Victor LaValle
#40. You should try making more noise as you walk, too." Curran suggested. "Maybe the ghouls will mistake you for a small underground elephant and run off."
"When we get out of here, I'll kick you."
"You'll try.
Ilona Andrews
#42. I listen to a lot of different music. I love hip-hop. I'm a big underground rap fan. I listen to the likes of J. Cole. Lately, I've also been getting into techno house music. And I've been on an Eighties retro kick, and I've even been experimenting with some rock.
Denzel Whitaker
#43. I'm on a weird quest to be sort of famous, like an indie movie star that only the hip people like to chat about.....I want to be underground famous," she wrote on Grrl, before working on her Sith promotions - she's genuinely on "our side.
Anne Elizabeth Moore
#44. Unprocessed intense emotion goes underground and creates a subconscious block that can be released as soon as the original event is integrated in the mind, heart, and body.
Deborah Sandella
#45. The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the "underground scene". It's what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses.
El-P
#46. Some leaders of denominations are not of the Bride of Christ. They are leaders in a Church in which many have long since betrayed the Master. When they meet someone of the Underground Church, a martyr, they look at him strangely.
Richard Wurmbrand
#47. Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.
Mason Cooley
#48. I've had some really, really wild fun nights in Vegas. I ended up on stage once with this band, The Digital Underground, doing the Humpty Dance.
Ashton Kutcher
#49. I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made ... It has become kind of my signature thing.
Madison McKinley
#50. My need for love had gone underground, like a canny toothache.
Alice Munro
#51. It doesn't really seem any different anywhere. I'd say it seems like we're biggest in Australia. It's just that we've always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground.
Jon Crosby
#52. I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
#53. We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe.
Courtney M. Privett
#54. The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God ... or an artist and a writer.
Vera Nazarian
#55. Every day you learn something amazing," Kat says, "like there's a secret underground library in New York City" - she pauses and gapes for effect, and it makes me laugh - "and you realize there's so much more that's waiting. Eighty years isn't enough. Or a hundred. Whatever. It's just not.
Robin Sloan
#56. If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.
Suzanne Collins
#57. His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream material visible.
Anne Lamott
#58. What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun
which is to say, preserving the human spirit.
Tom Robbins
#59. We had good cake," I tell Caleb. "We had fizzy drinks," he says. "Ah, but did you have a ledge overlooking an underground river?" says Marlene, waggling her eyebrows. "Or a room where you faced all your nightmares at once?" "No," says Caleb, "and to be honest, I'm kind of okay with that.
Veronica Roth
#60. Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow.
Lester R. Brown
#61. The ghost-walking, the short-tempered distraction, the hurried fog. (All of this I'm just assuming, because I have no idea how I come across, my consciousness is that underground, like a toad in winter.)
Maria Semple
#62. 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
#63. Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.
Mohsin Hamid
#64. So, I play in a band. It's a really underground band. Super underground. Very underground. Like, we don't even actually play.
Greg Behrendt
#65. The underground appeared in this novel as the failure and reversal of Christianity.
Rene Girard
#66. Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.
Rick Riordan
#67. However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.
Lin Yutang
#68. If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
The Brothers Karamazov
Mitya (Dmitri) to Aloysha who visits him in prison, Book XI - Ivan, Chapter 4 - A Hymn and a Secret.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#69. I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
Bahman Ghobadi
#70. I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous.
Deborah Cox
#71. The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.
Michael Azerrad
#72. I remember, as a kid, when I first understood that only half of every tree is visible, that the roots in the soil are equal to the branches in the sky, that a whole other half is underground. It took me a lot longer, well into adulthood, to realize people are like that too.
Elan Mastai
#73. I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm a mole underground.
Jacob Collins
#74. Marriage was like the surface of an ocean, seemingly placid and serene above; yet if you weren't careful, seething and raging with underground earthquakes below.
Melissa De La Cruz
#75. 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
#76. A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.
Travie McCoy
#77. Nico drew his sword. His smile was even more unsettling than his scowl.
"Underground," he said. "My favorite place."
Underground was not Jason's favorite place.
Rick Riordan
#78. 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.
John Lennon
#79. Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.
Barton Gellman
#80. You took the Alkaholik challenge, and lost your balance
You underground, we under water drinkin liquid by the gallons
Xzibit
#81. For years they have pursued me. Their persistence has kept me underground ... forced me to live in purgatory ... laboring beneath the earth like a chthonic monster.
Dan Brown
#82. Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.
Carol Gilligan
#83. Abundant talent is like a rich vein of water underground that finds all sorts of places to gush forth(..)
Haruki Murakami
#84. Hard time adjusting to being underground so much. But after the surreal encounter with the
Suzanne Collins
#85. She was held for ransom. No one else was to be involved. Gabe paid up but didn't make it in time to release her from a coffin. They didn't keep their word. She suffocated, buried underground.
Lacey Silks
#86. Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the world of the Presidency, I think of him.
Vaclav Havel
#87. The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connolly
#88. Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.
Emily Cale
#89. A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.
Henry S. F. Cooper
#90. It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground.
Deborah Cox
#91. It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
Talib Kweli
#92. Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
Margaret Atwood
#93. I'm glad you think this is funny."
"You're not happy to see me, then?" Jace asked. "I have to say, I'm surprised. I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cells.
Cassandra Clare
#94. We bury our seeds and wait,
Winter blocks the road,
Flowers are taken prisoner underground,
But then green justice tenders a spear
Rumi
#95. - but you know they're still doing it. Stoppin' 'em just made 'em go underground. Bill says he wouldn't be surprised if there was another Nat Turner Uprisin', we're sittin' on a keg of dynamite and we just might as well be ready, Hester said.
Harper Lee
#96. Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the next thing they'll do is bury me underground anyway.
Suzanne Collins
#97. There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
Richard Pryor
#98. We've always been kind of an underground band in a way that had the respect of our peers on the road. I like to say we're the world's most famous opening act because we've opened for every huge band on the planet.
Robin Zander
#99. I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.
Courtney Love
#100. Stay away from the underground lake I implore,
The Siren will see you are heard of no more.
E.A. Bucchianeri
