Genre Quotes · Page 17

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

— Alan Bishop

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

— Amy Tan

What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's.

— Bear McCreary

“This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

— Jonathan Lethem

I was planning to make 'Hate Story 2,' but I stepped out of that project. I don't want to repeat the genre.

— Vivek Agnihotri

It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on…

— Marc Webb

I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough.

— Goapele

With 'Dawson's Creek,' I wasn't a fan of '90210,' and that wasn't particularly my genre of show. 'Fringe,' on the other hand,…

— Joshua Jackson

I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than…

— Vin Diesel

I think a big part of 'American Idol' that scares people and actually has, I'm sure, stopped people from trying out is…

— Lee DeWyze

When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they…

— FKA twigs

I've never been attracted to sci-fi per se. People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

The Americans think British T.V. shows are amazing, and everybody references 'Downton Abbey', and, in my genre, 'Doctor Who', which everyone is…

— Jaime Murray

There are only a few genres, horror and comedy, where you can get that immediate feedback from the audience. It's very gratifying…

— Adam Wingard

I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really…

— Condola Rashad

The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you…

— Clint Eastwood

I love taking on challenges. I think one of the funnest things in acting is creating a character - wrapping yourself around…

— Drew Waters

Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they…

— Mark Lawson

Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is…

— Kiefer Sutherland

I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre…

— Michael Chabon

I do experiment with lots of different genres. In making music, I don't think of genre like, "I want to do this,…

— India.Arie

... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed…

— Roger McGuinn

The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said…

— Adrian Hodges

So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre.

— Kamasi Washington

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.

— Junot Diaz

I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I'd love to be old and gray and still be working…

— Barbara Crampton

The danger with genre is playing genre instead of playing the honesty of what's going on.

— Melanie Scrofano

I want to do everything related to music. Every genre, every style I want to compose.

— Ankit Tiwari

I don't have any issue with any genre. That does not bother me. Thank god for that.

— Arshad Warsi

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

— Julianna Baggott

I think my genre is in the pop world because I love catchy melodies, but it's a rough kind of pop.

— G Flip

It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.

— David Lynch

I'll read anything that's good. I have no artificial barriers based on genre.

— Greg Iles

My favorites are songs that I get an emotional charge from, whatever genre they're in.

— Colm Wilkinson

Trap is being added to everything. It seems like every genre wants that bit of trap to what they're doing.

— Zaytoven

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

— Chad Lindberg

I'm just starting to take some more voice lessons but hell no, I'll always stick into the hip-hop genre.

— SonReal

I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.

— Alison McGhee

I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.

— Kailash Kher