Underground Quotes

• I was an underground rapper and only 16 years old, a freshman at high school. Bang thought I had potential as a rapper and lyricist, and we went from there. Then Suga joined us.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Rapper
  • Underground
  • Lyricist

• Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Families
  • Potatoes
  • Underground

• In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Art
  • Group
  • Underground

• Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur.

  

  Axwell Swedish House Mafia
  • Way
  • Underground
  • Dance Music

• But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Music
  • My Life
  • Sound

• They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Potatoes
  • Underground
  • Derive

• Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.

  

  Homer
  • Support
  • My Family
  • Cult

• For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Different
  • Past

• But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Pain
  • Desires
  • Poison

• This is obscure and lo-fi, so who knows...maybe the underground will like me again haha.

  

  Clemens Wijers Carach Angren
  • Like
  • Obscure
  • Lo-Fi

• Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Suffer
  • Human Heart
  • Murderer

• I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found comfort in thus deceiving yourselves. So that I, perhaps, come out even more "living" than you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • My Life
  • Gentleman
  • Allishness

• It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.

  

  Cassie
  • Artist
  • Popular
  • Awesome

• Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Connections
  • Underground

• Now what we want to do is be able to attack, from the airplanes, their headquarters, their commanders which are underground so that we can stop the tremendous ethnic cleansing which is now taking place on the ground.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Place
  • Attack
  • Airplanes

• Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.

  

  Euripides
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Underground

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

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Band
  • Mainstream
  • Anymore

• I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

  

  Arik Roper
  • Horror
  • Comics
  • Underground

• The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Water
  • Underground
  • Wor

• It's like we are underground, in a cemetery....the sky is the earth... We are hibernating, sleeping all the time and we don't know it. We are dreaming that there is plenty of oxygen.

  

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Sky
  • Dreaming
  • Underground

• There is nothing I like more than pure underground music.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Music
  • Nothing
  • Underground

• There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.

  

  David Pajo
  • Planet
  • Everywhere
  • Metal

• We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited.

  

  Jon Crosby
  • Feeling
  • Audiences
  • Underground

• Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Fear
  • Eyes
  • Underground

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