Quotes About Genres

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

Bonnie Raitt

#2. In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

Adam McKay

#3. If I had stayed purely a horror writer or thriller writer, I might have more of a presence in those particular genres, and I'd certainly have more individual titles to market, since it's much easier to write pure genre fiction than it is to create something different.

Chet Williamson

#4. 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

#5. There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.

Ralph Macchio

#6. Movies serve many purposes, and I've visited many of those genres, from the most light, frivolous comedy that is just trying to make you laugh, to movies that explore the most complicated side of the human soul. As an actor, I play all of those things, and I still like it.

Antonio Banderas

#7. 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

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

Joseph Gatt

#9. 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

#10. I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Italo Calvino

#11. In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality.

Steve Erickson

#12. I'm reteaming with the producers of 'Twilight' on an awesome script. It's very serious, dramatic and different for me. I'm excited to see what's next. I love all aspects of film and all genres.

Taylor Lautner

#13. I don't want to be the funny girl or the serious girl. I would hope to touch on all different genres and all different types of characters, which I think I've been lucky enough to do, so far.

Yvonne Strahovski

#14. George Strait is the king and Kenny Chesney is about as big as it gets right now, though I wouldnt mind going back out on the road with him. Maybe I could go out on the road with some singers from other genres.

Dierks Bentley

#15. 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

#16. History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

Jon Weisman

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want to do a musical one day. I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.

Spike Lee

#20. Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.

Hal Duncan

#21. Our thoughts and desires are based in hope, but our behaviors are based in fear. This misalignment often causes a feeling of hopelessness and continues the cycle of feeding outdated ideologies and Guru genres offering gimmicks to anesthetize the pain.

Steve Maraboli

#22. I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

Sam Mendes

#23. Ricky's [Reed] a lot like me. He always says we have the same brain. He does all different genres, and it just happens his first big hit as a producer was [Derulo's] "Talk Dirty to Me," and that Pitbull is his best friend. But he can actually - I swear - he can do every genre.

Meghan Trainor

#24. Rick Rubin is super intriguing to me because he has become this god producer in completely drastically different genres, which very few people have done.

Ryan Lewis

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

Herbie Hancock

#26. I'd like to extend my career a little bit into different genres.

Jason Sudeikis

#27. I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

Mal Peet

#28. I really feel that the thing that I love the most about my career is that it is so eclectic. You know, I've gone from so many genres and so many different mediums and I love that most - that people have always given me the chance to do vastly different things.

Katie Finneran

#29. I probably shouldn't do a straight drama. I'd probably ruin it. I don't know. But, I'd love the opportunity to try. I'm sure that every kind of filmmaker feels that they can do other genres of film and want to, and I feel the same way.

Steve Pink

#30. I really look up to people who experiment in all areas and I think Johnny Depp is a really good actor to look up to because he's done so many genres of films.

Georgie Henley

#31. I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.

Aidan Gillen

#32. I am a fan of the true crime and horror genres! So, I've got a dark side too.

Ladyhawke

#33. All the genres are so blended nowadays. There are lots of comedies out there that are more realistic than dramas, and some dramas out there that are so broad and wacky that they don't even pass for a broad, wacky comedy.

Madeline Zima

#34. My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

Alan Moore

#35. People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.

Gary Saul Morson

#36. I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

Victoria Justice

#37. Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me.

Julianna Baggott

#38. The genres of Hindi cinema are structured very differently from the Hollywood cinema: they are far more hybrid.

Rashmi Doraiswamy

#39. I try not to discriminate against genres.

Ryan Gosling

#40. 'I Am Number Four' definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job.

Callan McAuliffe

#41. The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

Mary Karr

#42. I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.

Kenneth Branagh

#43. If I'm smart as an artist, I wouldn't be a snob and turn it down, because I'd look at it and go, this is great stuff, but I definitely do want to experiment in other genres, or make films in other genres.

James Wan

#44. The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

Lake Bell

#45. I've been singing for a really long time and I love a lot of genres, but country just seemed like the best fit. The people in that genre are just so nice and welcoming. And that seemed so appealing. Also my voice fit it and seemed like the way to go.

Sasha Pieterse

#46. Donald Trump comes closer than anyone else to being the archetype of the species; crossing genres, he exemplifies all the ways an asshole can capture our attention. (164-65)

Geoffrey Nunberg

#47. At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

Keith Urban

#48. 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

#49. Well of course people cross genres all the time. You could have something called science-fiction-fantasy. Some galaxy far, far away and in another time with spaceships, but also dragons. And there's no rule that says you can't do that.

Margaret Atwood

#50. I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.

Tarsem Singh

#51. I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.

Adam Christopher

#52. Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all emotion-driven. It's not a rational genre, like science fiction is. It's irrational by nature. And it is capable of exploring all aspects of human experience.

Stephen R. Bissette

#53. 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

#54. Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white.

Paul Schrader

#55. Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.

Charlie Jane Anders

#56. I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#57. It's about ... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly.

Dennis Quaid

#58. 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

#59. I don't really have a structured path of wanting to say, "This is what I'll do next." I'm just going to read a bunch of scripts and see which one I love. There are so many things I would love to play, in all different genres.

Selena Gomez

#60. I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging.

Clint Eastwood

#61. I really like films and plays that cross over different genres. So I'd like to do something that you think is a drama and then you think is a supernatural thing and then becomes a drama again. That's very vague.

Romola Garai

#62. I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible.

David Koechner

#63. Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades.

Gregory Benford

#64. I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since.

Michael Scott

#65. I'm not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. There's good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

Angela Bettis

#66. 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

#67. I've always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

Jonathan Lethem

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

Thia Megia

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film.

Stephanie D'Abruzzo

#72. Horror I appreciate is one of the few genres that can wind the audience up and make them pay attention. I kind of like that. It's one of the few genres that can be very manipulative.

Bruce Campbell

#73. Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

Sergio Aragones

#74. I have the death sentence in seven genres.

Jasper Fforde

#75. 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

#76. One of the most refreshing changes I've seen in recent years is the blending of genres - the pushing past the hard-and-fast lines of specific publishing categories.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#77. Although I love all genres, I really love to play in two main arenas: Comedy and Thriller/Horror. In either genre I love playing flawed, layered characters that are actively fighting to achieve something in the story.

Kyle Cassie

#78. Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one audience that the studios are aiming for and that's the kid audience. It's really tragic that they don't' make films for older people.

Bill Plympton

#79. Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

Ville Valo

#80. I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.

Shawn Ryan

#81. I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.

Kim Ji-woon

#82. I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.

Joss Whedon

#83. All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.

Camille Paglia

#84. 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

#85. Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

Franz Grillparzer

#86. A good song can be produced in several different genres.

Wendy Starland

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. Read everything! Don't just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think you're already going to like. Experiment; try new stuff and try new genres. If you read a lot of romance, then start reading mystery. If you read a lot of mystery, start reading fantasy.

Cassandra Clare

#90. I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

Amy Tan

#91. I just watch a lot of different films and different TV shows. Really for me, it's just looking at how people react to different shows in different genres. For me, it's more a study of people than a study of acting.

Sterling Beaumon

#92. Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.

Julianna Baggott

#93. There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.

Susanne Wuest

#94. I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography - that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms.

Joel Meyerowitz

#95. Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

Jasper Fforde

#96. I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

Concha Buika

#97. Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.

Carol Berg

#98. Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when they're pushed against that wall, and how they're manipulated. They are both morality tales, though in very different genres.

Kevin Spacey

#99. The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.

Cary Elwes

#100. 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