Anti-Mainstream Quotes

As many have noted, Donald Trump's presidency is an insurgency. Mr. Trump himself is the quintessential insurgent, doing battle with a disingenuous and entrenched establishment.

Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together.

When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

We don't like preaching, we don't like love songs, we don't like fun songs. We just like the dark side.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

I can't live in a world of dullards. So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.

Every wrestling show is now designed to be the greatest show ever. In contrast, the NWA show is different. It didn't tire people out to watch, something was allowed to register. It is the exact antithesis of planned, big budget, choreographed, scripted sports entertainment, and that is what makes the show so different.

You can't be a punk all your life.

We're kind of like the Kurt Cobain of country music in a way.

Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

My attraction to the Church of Satan... is the same thing that initially attracted me to punk rock. It was something that wasn't very entirely popular, and it was sort of like the adversary to mainstream culture and beliefs.

The thing about hipsters is that they take very seriously trying to make themselves look like they don't take themselves seriously.

Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

I remember at school one day there was a vocabulary list on the chalkboard, and the word 'nonconformist' was on there, and it said, 'Someone that doesn't appeal to society, someone who doesn't fit in.' We had this whole conversation about it, and I realized it cohered to the punk-rock world that I was into.

I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars.