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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. -- Harriet Tubman
Underground, the stars are legend. -- Catherine Fisher
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. -- Harriet Tubman
Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur -- Axwell
Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another. -- Harriet Lerner
I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground. -- Martin Gore
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band. -- Brian Eno
Underground is underground, commercial is commercial. There's market for both, and both get money. -- U-God
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius. -- Alice Hoffman
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band -- Brian Eno
I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time. -- John Waters
I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison. -- Richard Wurmbrand
Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes. -- Miguel
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me. -- Martin Gore
No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song. -- Ezra Koenig
As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too. -- Ric Ocasek
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
I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City. -- Devendra Banhart
The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or anything. -- Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground. -- J. K. Rowling
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
The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York. -- Devendra Banhart
Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Quotes from the Underground is a remarkable resource and must-read for writers, researchers, activists and indeed anyone who embraces progressive values and hopes to rescue politics from corporate control. -- Joel Bakan
When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then only lasted about two or three years. -- John Waters
The first show I ever played was the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington. It was girl night, and I was in Heavens To Betsy. I had just turned 18. -- Corin Tucker
Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing. -- Charles Hazlewood
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
Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed. -- Vince Cable
When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own. -- Henry Rollins
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
I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, but I won't front like I'm super knowledgeable. I just never got around to it. -- Eric Andre
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
As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it. -- Henry Rollins
Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches. -- Adrian Tomine
I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage. -- Stewart Lee
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
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
I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work. -- Douglas Kennedy
To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album. -- B.o.B
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As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. -- Moby
When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music. -- Lykke Li
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
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. -- Miguel de Cervantes
For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground. -- Jello Biafra
I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade. -- Alex Winter
If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow. -- Emile Zola
I've always been ahead of the curve when it came to trying new stuff in the underground scene. -- Kid Cudi
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. -- Thomas Carlyle
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. -- Anthony Bourdain
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. -- Brian Eno
I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff. -- Vanilla Ice
You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive. -- Phil Anselmo
If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people. -- Moby
We shot 'Delusion' in the middle of the desert and outside of Las Vegas where they did those underground nuclear bomb testings. So I only ate oysters and drank coffee because I didn't want to turn into a mutant. -- Jennifer Rubin
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
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see. -- Dan Brown
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
The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called. -- Randy Wayne White
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. -- Lester Bangs
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
And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that... My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground. -- Mark Wahlberg
I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it. -- Lana Del Rey
For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda. -- Lauryn Hill
I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains. -- Tony Judt
It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere. -- Elon Musk
Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree. -- Joyce Meyer
I'm very underground. -- Eric Bogosian
There will always be an underground. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground. -- Chris Lowe
Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground. -- Marge Piercy
You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground. -- Aimee Bender
I was in the underground until I left Germany. -- Klaus Fuchs
What was once underground is now coming to the surface. -- Gavin Bryars
To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground. -- Anais Nin
There is nothing I like more than pure underground music -- Kurt Cobain
While in a crowded underground carriage, scream 'It's happening again! -- Rich Fulcher
Somehow there is a certain honesty underground, a certain truth, -- Christophe Agou
Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground. -- Euripides
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. -- Francis Bacon
Coincidence means only a connection that's not seen. Roots meet underground. -- Charlotte Armstrong
Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile. -- Mason Cooley
The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering. -- Ian MacKaye
What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel. -- Andrew Cuomo
I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people. -- Buzz Osborne
Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground. -- Tomas Kalnoky
The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground. -- Dennis Hopper
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground. -- Eric Bogosian
There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground. -- Richard Pryor
Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground. -- William Stone
If people didn't read books on the subway, underground journeys would be dreary. -- Russell Smith
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. -- Diane Wakoski
And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain. -- C. S. Lewis
So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home. -- Anthony Braxton
Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface. -- Felix Buxton
I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream. -- John Ashbery
The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music. -- Kendrick Lamar
The underground and the alternative is going to be substituted with being a virus. -- Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town. -- Dick Gregory
Mixtape legend, underground kings... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things -- Drake
I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping. -- Juicy J
An underground hit didn't make any money and it cost a dollar to get in. -- John Waters
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay. -- Libby Houston
Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family. -- Homer
A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens. -- Bill McKibben
God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop. -- Meister Eckhart
Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s -- Glenn Danzig
You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes -- Ally Carter
You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins. -- Marianne Williamson
As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical. -- Vladimir Sorokin
Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records. -- Seth Troxler
Fashion's recognized as a business now, but it was something that was almost underground when I started. -- Lori Goldstein
They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground. -- Francis Bacon

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