Mainstream quotes
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"The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld."
"The mainstream is always under attack."
"The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream."
"I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream."
"Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream."
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"I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums."
"When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said."
"My proposal happens to be very mainstream."
"I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist."
"When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way."
