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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
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
There is nothing I like more than pure underground music -- Kurt Cobain
I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally. -- Janelle Monae
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
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
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
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
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
The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music. -- Kendrick Lamar
I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit. -- Bahman Ghobadi
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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
The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played the piano. This was post-war Britain, and they played boogie woogie and blues, which was the underground music of the time. -- Jools Holland
I know Diplo knows a lot about underground music culture - he was one of the people to put me onto music like that when I used to listen to the Mad Decent Mixes. It was like, 'Oh, he knows what I want.' -- Kreayshawn
I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping. -- Juicy J
At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America. -- Tiesto
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
When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times. -- Frank Iero
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered. -- Herbie Hancock
As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold. -- Hari Kunzru
When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers. -- will.i.am
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
I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write music and be in a band and play shows. I even got into an underground art scene. I was going to do whatever. -- Chris Cornell
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
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
At 18, I moved to L.A. with my heavy metal band Avant Garde, which was very much influenced by Metallica. At 19, I got a job at Tower Records, and everything started to change very quickly. I started listening to the Velvet Underground, Pixies, early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and also earlier music like the Beatles. -- Rivers Cuomo
There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness. -- Kaskade
Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur -- Axwell
Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface. -- Felix Buxton
Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records. -- Seth Troxler
The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive. -- Michael Azerrad
Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground". -- Eddy de Clercq
With rap music, there are billions and billions of samples that are uncleared that people have never been bothered about on an underground level. -- Girl Talk
I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that. -- Missy Elliot
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. -- Ice Cube
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

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