We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you…

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…

— Taylor Swift

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

— Nat Hentoff

To me now, I don't really categorize music - I see music as all one.

— J Hus

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

— Anonymous

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in

— Geezer Butler

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

— Elvis Presley

You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.

— Kendrick Lamar

It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe,…

— Keegan-Michael Key

“I don't categorize things merely to simplify my understanding. I'd rather delve into the process of unlearning.”

— Nikhil Sharda

I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.

— Gretchen Rubin

I think that it's human nature to categorize and label things. That's generally the way that the medical and psychological professions work. You look…

— Michael Finkel

My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't…

— William Klein

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.

— Hilton Als

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the…

— Sandra Bullock

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

— George Lakoff