#underground

Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down. ↗

— Joe Strummer

#anyway #back #bad #down #everyone

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#fyodor-dostoyevsky #notes-from-the-underground #slave #age

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#done #flowing #good #good man #green

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#art school #brooklyn #call #comics #east

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay. ↗

— Libby Houston

#go #kindness #our dreams #out #stay

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#create #every #prohibition #underground #you

I was in the underground until I left Germany. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#i #left #underground #until

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. ↗

— Courtney Love

#band #bought #comedy #everybody #i

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks. ↗

— John Mayer

#order #release #songs #stick #tracks

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people. ↗

— Buzz Osborne

#cool people #i #just #people #stay