Anthony Fantano Quotes

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.

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.

I never identified with 'indie,' I don't like that word.

I'm really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.

We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.

I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who are from New Zealand, living in Portland.

People from all walks of life that you might find as a King Diamond fan - you don't look a certain way; you don't have to say certain things. It can be anyone.

Playing in London in 1979 was exciting: it was at the start of new wave, the transition period after punk, and there were a lot of radical, fashionable young people on the streets and in the venues.

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.

I'm a proud mainstream musician, but having said that, I do firmly believe there's more to musical talent in India than just Bollywood.

I'm happy that grime remains underground. A lot of people talk like it's some underrated or ignored genre, but to me, that's the beauty of it.

My music isn't mainstream music.

I never wrote music for the mainstream.

I'm totally up for experimental music. I'm up for music that they don't play on the radio, and I take in all of it. But my thing, the thing that comes most natural to me, is making the stuff that has a melody; it has a soul to it, yet it's head music.

The Indian music scene is completely dominated by Bollywood music. We need to create space for indi-pop music.

Bath was hardly known for its rock'n roll. We weren't part of the London scene or the New Romantics or any of that.

When I came up in a band - not just in a band, but a kind of underground DIY community - there was such a clear cut distinction between what pop was and what not pop was in very simplistic terms.

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

We don't feel like we changed from rave, because we were never rave, to punk, because we're not punk.

We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either.

I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.

Back in 1981, the chances of a punk-rock girl band from L.A. doing what we did was completely nil.

The day you don't mess with somebody, that would be exclusive rather than inclusive. I strive to be inclusive.