Genre Quote by Robyn Davidson

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

— Michelle Shocked

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

— Mason Cooley

Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground".

— Eddy de Clercq

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

— Van Morrison

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be…

— Stephen King

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

— Mary Baker Eddy

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

— Iggy Pop

But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff.

— Kool Keith

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

— Rick Moody

To some degree, as I move outside of the exclusive genre audience, the exclusive genre issues don't bother me as much. Maybe that's just…

— N. K. Jemisin

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

— Catherine Jinks