Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Johnson

The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.

William H. Seward

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

Kurt Cobain

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

Manfred Eigen

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

Frederick Soddy

An honest money system is the only alternative.

Marshall McLuhan

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Margaret Thatcher

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

Peter Singer

We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Bill Gates

The mainstream is always under attack.

Daniel Anderson

This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.

Bob Dylan

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.

Billy Corgan

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

James Blake

At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program.

Preston Manning

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

Steve Albini

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.

Eric Church

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

Shane Smith

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

Tyga

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Young Jeezy

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Ennio Morricone

Music is an experience, not a science.

Jimmy Page

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Vanessa Mae

Music is about the performance.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Tom DeLonge

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

Ted Nugent

Music is the great connector.