Genre Quotes · Page 32

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it…

— Tarsem Singh

My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there.…

— Meghan Trainor

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

— Taylor Swift

I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.

— Patton Oswalt

AJ Styles is of a different genre, and he's a wonderful part of wrestling, doing things that a lot of guys can't…

— Terry Funk

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get…

— Nicole Richie

There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?

— Sarah McLachlan

It's always better to offer variety to the audience rather than singing just one kind of genre.

— Sonu Kakkar

Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was.…

— Grieves

I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the…

— Martina McBride

As an actor, I think you can get really bad habits, if you do the same thing, every day. You can get…

— Brie Larson

I think the war movie genre is a very important genre in film. Film gives you a visceral experience of something that…

— Helen Mirren

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and…

— Miguel

Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy.…

— Graham Joyce

A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger,…

— Adam Hochschild

I'm convinced Mr. Reagan would never be elected- I don't think his views are held by a majority of the American people...it's…

— John Anderson

I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I…

— William Gibson

Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake…

— Hal Duncan

Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved…

— Paul Di Filippo

As a late teenager, the punk movement pushed me further. In particular, the Clash, which happened to leak through the time of…

— Chuck D

At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre…

— Hayao Miyazaki

It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts…

— Terry Pratchett

Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book…

— Janet Morris

I think every filmmaker wants... I don't know about every filmmaker. I certainly want my films to just exist. I want them…

— Jody Hill

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

— Leslie Banks

I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women…

— Bar Paly

Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

— Lee Klein

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

— Jose Saramago

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

— George R. R. Martin

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and…

— Kathleen Rooney

I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.

— Allison Schroeder

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and…

— M. Shadows

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

— Julianna Baggott

I don't believe that what Tears for Fears has done, and continues to do, can be pigeonholed into a genre or decade.

— Curt Smith

I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get…

— Yukimi Nagano

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

— Leos Carax

I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I…

— Jackie Earle Haley

I really strived to give equal weight to the two halves of my genre's name: science and fiction.

— Robert J. Sawyer

There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide.

— Matthew Healy

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.

— Miranda Otto