Underground Quotes

Underground Quote of the day

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.

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

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.

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.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

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

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.

I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.

There is nothing I like more than pure underground music

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.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.

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.

I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

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.

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

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.

The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.

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.

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.

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.

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

Can I ask you something?" He placed the chain around her neck. She nodded. "Have you ever wanted something really badly that you know you shouldn't have, yet you can't stop yourself from wanting it?

The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.

Man only likes to count his troubles

Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association

We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read.

Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

We are not meant to spend the rest of our lives underground. We need to go home and tell a strange story that no one will believe.

Stay away from the underground lake I implore, The Siren will see you are heard of no more.

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?

To fall in love twice, with the same person, you need to grow another heart. That's all I do in my secret underground laboratory at night...

Every great day has a story and a song!