You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.
I would say that everyone that you see who is successful in the mainstream, at the top of Billboard, who has a Top 40 hit... at some point, unless they're a complete fabrication of the industry with no identity of their own and a carbon copy clone of someone else, they in themselves started out being underground.
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.
What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.
I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.
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.
The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.
I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.
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.
It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
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.
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 listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
There are just a number of documents within the company and the industry that clearly indicate that secondhand smoke is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than mainstream smoke -- and the documents date back into the 70s.
Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
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.
The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.
...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.
The mainstream is always under attack.
