Music Genres Quotes

#1. As players of instruments, it is our duty to reach out and give light to those in the dark in whatever way that we can. All my actions are a fulfilment of all the African music genres - I'm only trying to maintain the culture and the tradition. I am a musician.

Sizzla

#2. I've been through almost every type of obsession as far as music genres go, so I usually say I just like a good song, but the songs that are the most universal that a person on the other side of the world knows and can relate to is a very powerful entity.

Mark Salling

#3. I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.

Thia Megia

#4. There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

Hillary Scott

#5. I don't really feel like a rock artist, but I guess in the small category of the world of music genres, that's where I fall in because I've got a guitar.

Courtney Barnett

#6. Although my music is electronic, it has a lot of influences from my past, which is all sorts of genres; I've been in a rock-metal band for a long time, and I still feel like, personally, I have a lot of influence from that. My classical influence, you can find spots here and there.

Zedd

#7. Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

Henry Rollins

#8. I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to dance to. I think dancers like different genres of music, compared to just a regular person.

Maddie Ziegler

#9. The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

Bonnie Raitt

#10. I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.

Kid Rock

#11. The world of technology has made it easier for people to get in touch with their modern muses regardless of the genres that they are trying to utilize and even if they create a new genre based on a mixing of others. The potential for modern-day muses is as vast as individual creativity.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#12. Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

Bella Thorne

#13. I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves.

Nelly Furtado

#14. Tastes are varied, man, so much in this music world. Look, I adore the bands that I adore. On the flipside, as much as you love a 100 different genres of bands, there are another 100 I can easily say I dislike, too.

Phil Anselmo

#15. I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.

B.o.B

#16. I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music.

Bruno Mars

#17. For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

Taylor Swift

#18. I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.

Taylor Swift

#19. Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.

Kate Pierson

#20. Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

Herbie Hancock

#21. One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

Henry Rollins

#22. Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.

Chanel Iman

#23. Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

Chuck D

#24. The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.

Brad Delson

#25. I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to.

Kathleen Edwards

#26. The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and ... country?

Kacey Musgraves

#27. Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music arena, you've got hip-hop, you got contemporary, urban contemporary, you got traditional, you got neo-soul gospel, you've got all of these different things.

Marvin Sapp

#28. I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.

Alejo Carpentier

#29. For us, it is all about breaking the boundaries between different genres of music and combining different styles of music and performing what we are passionate about. We are so lucky that we can experience both worlds: the more intimate classical world and the wild and crazy world of rock n' roll.

Luka Sulic

#30. I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

Herbie Hancock

#31. Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

Miguel

#32. I like so many different genres of music that I guess it would be hard for me to pick one person who inspires me when so many people inspire me to make good music.

Rahki

#33. I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

Tom Waits

#34. I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

Carrie Brownstein

#35. When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.

Lionel Richie

#36. Tous les genres sont bons,
Hors le genre ennuyeux."
(All genres are good,
Except the boring one.

Gioachino Rossini

#37. I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.

Avicii

#38. Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.

Avicii

#39. If you don't appreciate all genres, then you'll never experience the true meaning and beauty of music.

Jon Luvelli

#40. I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them.

David Lynch

#41. My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

Gloria Estefan

#42. I love music. I love every kind of extreme sort of music, and many different genres, and if I were to have to dedicate myself to just one kind of genre, I would feel kind of gypped. I'd be like, man, I wish I could do this or that. And really all it takes is trying it out.

Phil Anselmo

#43. My music is pretty versatile; I have a lot of genres and styles. I don't think I should be pigeonholed into one thing. So we'll see where my career goes.

Crystal Bowersox

#44. There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.

Rick Moranis

#45. I don't know why people have to categorize things in music under music. It's music and it's music and it's music. When you start putting genres on things, I think it's completely ridiculous, and I hate that.

Austin Carlile

#46. Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.

Rokia Traore

#47. There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.

Jimmy Page

#48. Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.

Charles Hazlewood

#49. I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.

Greg Lake

#50. I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers.

Perez Hilton

#51. For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.

Jacqueline Emerson

#52. As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.

Thighpaulsandra

#53. I think country music is really one of the biggest genres of music out there and one the most successful genres.

Tim McGraw

#54. I'm influenced by all kinds of music. I have a very diverse iPod. You never know if I've got it on shuffle. You never know what you are going to hear next. I like all genres.

Toby Keith

#55. I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

Bruno Mars

#56. I am a big fan of music in general. I listen to all genres: hip-hop, R&B, whatever sounds good to me; it doesn't matter to me where it comes from - there are no boundaries, no fences. If I like it, then it will inspire me to create.

Stephen Marley

#57. I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

Joseph Gatt

#58. I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

Patrick Stump

#59. Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us.

Phil Anselmo

#60. The internet helps with information exchange in general so it's obviously easier to check out tracks and whatnot from different genres. I think people are a lot more open to music in general because it's being communicated easier.

Girl Talk

#61. If you follow a trend, by the time it is released it will sound like the same regurgitated music that the public has been hearing for the past eight months (at least.) I am not referring to genres or production that is considered to be timeless or "classic" sounding.

Wendy Starland

#62. I needed to get to know myself and really, really explore music without any pressure to sell it. I wanted to try and not restrain myself at all, so I've been trying to move quite freely between different sounds and genres.

Tove Styrke

#63. There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.

David Guetta

#64. I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

Mika.

#65. All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before Michael Jackson, and there were music videos after Michael Jackson. He brought such a huge change in the marketing and positioning of the music video.

Sonu Nigam

#66. I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.

Hamid Drake

#67. Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things.

Jacob Bannon

#68. Maybe there's a different story when it comes to hip-hop or different genres, but as far as rock music goes, I think there is a sort of fear of saying things people might be apt to criticize. Our band is the opposite of that.

Conor Oberst

#69. There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.

Skrillex

#70. I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry.

Austin Carlile

#71. I found in general, I got involved in that station toward the end of my freshmen year, and I just loved how there's this incredible library of music that I'd never heard of from all over the world and different genres.

Chris Baio

#72. I see my music as Emotional Therapeutic Pop music that bleeds into loads of different genres.

Jessie J.