All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see. — Mark Nepo
In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Under the mountains is silver and gold. But under the night sky, hunger and cold. —
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. — Mark Twain
Just like the submarines, deep men are also unaffected by the storms! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig. — Marcus Aurelius
Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift. — Gilles Deleuze
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. — Ilya Ehrenburg
Short Underground Quotes
I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. — Harriet Tubman
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa,
I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza — Immortal Technique
I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison. — Richard Wurmbrand
Some families are like potatoes — all that’s good of them is underground. — American Proverbs
I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz. — Lou Reed
The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band — Brian Eno
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur. — Axwell
Underground Image Quotes
Notes From Underground Quotes
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Going Underground Quotes
I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. — Lester Bangs
Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not. — Peter J. Carroll
I think what's happenin' is that, with the overflow of music, it's been diluted. There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio. — Ice T
We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly...when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society. — Leslie Feinberg
If you would keep your soul
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole;
Go burrow underground. — Elinor Wylie
There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away. — Skrillex
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order. — Albert Einstein
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay. — Libby Houston
The underground and the alternative is going to be substituted with being a virus. — Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records. — Sasha Frere-Jones
Underground Railroad Quotes
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. — Harriet Tubman
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. — Harriet Tubman
I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. — Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. — W. E. B. Du Bois
I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius. — Alice Hoffman
Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as "freedom." — Aisha Hinds
The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land. — Henry David Thoreau
Underground Music Quotes
I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real. — Vanilla Ice
I'm not a pop rapper. That's nothing against pop music - I love pop music. I've jumped on pop records for people and still will, but I'm not a pop artist. I didn't start from there. I started in underground music. I consider myself an underground artist, as well as a producer. — Juicy J
There is nothing I like more than pure underground music — Kurt Cobain
Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records. — Seth Troxler
In underground music, there seems to be this real inability for people to express themselves in any kind of heroic or mythological way. There's this idea that we're all normal joes, and that creating a persona onstage or having schtick is somehow false and misleading and evil. — Ian Svenonius
Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM, how many of those cultural standpoints are the same? — Seth Troxler
With rap music, there are billions and billions of samples that are uncleared that people have never been bothered about on an underground level. — Girl Talk
At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America. — Tiesto
When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times. — Frank Iero
The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive. — Michael Azerrad
Velvet Underground Quotes
Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground. — Peter Bart
I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage. — Stewart Lee
When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous. — Moby
As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it. — Henry Rollins
It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print. — Lou Reed
I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City. — Devendra Banhart
I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or anything. — Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band. — Brian Eno
When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own. — Henry Rollins
The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York. — Devendra Banhart
Subterranean Quotes
All negotiations are defined by a network of subterranean desires and needs. Don’t let yourself be fooled by the surface. Once you know that the Haitian kidnappers just want party money, you will be miles better prepared. — Chris Voss
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. — Sigmund Freud
I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives. — Francois Truffaut
We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret. — Judy Grahn
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. — Gore Vidal
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it — Thurston Moore
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements. — Norman Mailer
Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself? — Anne Desclos
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state. — Bob Dylan
There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action. — Howard Thurman
To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand. — Albert Maltz
Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks. — James Clear
Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs. — Tom Udall
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries. — Lawrence M. Krauss
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. — Robert A. Heinlein
In my mind, New York was the place where they had the underground rap shows and I could get in on some ciphers and just rap. This whole fantasy world I had created in my head about New York just from listening to the music my whole life, like, I'ma go up there and do that. But when I came up here, there was none of that, that scene was dead. — J. Cole
The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence — Francisco Varela
My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis. — Colin Meloy
But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy. — Aaron Swartz
Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows. — Carol Gilligan
I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me. — Philip O Ceallaigh
Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities in birth is lost to the people of that society—to professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves. — Ina May Gaskin
If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime, and driving it underground, we ought to recognize it for what it is: it's a mental illness, it's a psychiatric condition which ought to be treated sympathetically by psychiatrists and social workers. — Tommy Douglas
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness. — Thomas Moore
They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground. — Francis Bacon
And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that... My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground. — Mark Wahlberg
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. — Phil Anselmo
There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground. — Richard Pryor
It is a different world, the underground. When you hit mainstream, you hit a saturation level and that turns some people off. When you are on more low-key stuff, it works to your advantage and it creates a buzz on the streets. At that point, the sky is the limit. — Joe Budden
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws. — S. J. Perelman
Nowadays rap artists coming half-hearted,
Commercial like pop, or underground like black markets.
Where were you the day hip-hop died?
Is it too early to mourn? Is it too late to ride? — Talib Kweli
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground. — William James
Science is a seagull, it knows the sky; it is a squirrel, it knows the forest; it is a mole, it knows the underground; it is a dolphin, it knows the ocean! Science is a multi-talented creature! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it. — Omar Khayyam
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