Devil Quote by Aldous Harding

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…

— Kathleen Edwards

I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as…

— Kathleen Edwards

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

— John Lennon

Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up…

— St. Lucia

I've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to a point where the live music…

— Kieran Hebden

People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people…

— Phoebe Bridgers

Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view,…

— John Lydon

I listen to all kinds of music and sometimes I try to do something that's referential to an era or a genre, but it…

— Phil Elverum

I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old.

— Trombone Shorty

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I didn't learn the word 'genre' until way, way late - I mean, like, in the '80s.

— Dianne Reeves

I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to be the…

— Hiromi Uehara