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Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.
I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.
'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
Is the mainstream becoming more queer? Or is it the opposite? That artists like me are mainstreaming queer music?
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
For whatever reason, the mainstream media, for the most part, affixes itself to progressive or liberal propaganda.
When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album.
I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.
I won't do press anymore unless I can talk about the homophobia and let queer people know our ideas are mainstream.
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening.
Let me be very frank. I make films keeping within the mainstream and my cinema is popular cinema. I love it this way.
If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
Weight training has enjoyed a huge impact, and the transformation has gone mainstream. I'm fortunate to be part of it.
The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.
Criticisms of mainstream media bias have been a staple of the conservative movement and talk radio from the beginning.
The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.
Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.
Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.
The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.
When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to recruit and fund-raise.
The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.
I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.
I've always been very passionate about trying to have Asian-Americans or Asian faces be more prominent in mainstream media.
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
What shocks me is people who have no expertise championing a view that runs counter to the mainstream scientific consensus.
I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color.
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
I am happy that I could contribute my bit and enable the use of colloquial Telugu words in mainstream films and literature.
In terms of target audience, who cares what a middle-aged guy like me wants; most mainstream are not catering to me at all.
In indies, life is very dark and realistic, and in mainstream films, the edges are all rounded off and very sentimentalized.
It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.
I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?
Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").
I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.
Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.
The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them.