Unpopular Music Quotes

My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.

I never wrote music for the mainstream.

The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.

I remember thinking the Nineties were uncool: 'I landed in the generation where nothing happens.'

I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.

My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.

Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.

We've never been a musically fashionable band. We've been successful, but I think that has something to do with us never following the trends.

There are so many songs that we just don't play anymore.

My music isn't mainstream music.

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

Taking on music that's not played very much is a contribution I can give. There's so much I feel that needs more attention.

I don't care about the underground, even if that's where I'm currently residing sonically.

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

Most people know Serge Gainsbourg's 'Histoire de Melody Nelson' album, but what's interesting is that in the early '90s, he actually went into a dark, weird phase that French people don't really like. They consider his music from that time weak. But for me, it's the best.