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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.

— Pat Metheny

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I really want my music to go mainstream.

— Yandel

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.

— Marnie Stern

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

— Matt Drudge

I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Eric Church

I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.

— Flea

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.

— Ashton Kutcher

You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.

— Robbie Williams

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

— Thurston Moore

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

— Peter Jennings