Quotes About Boundary-breaking

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

I look to a lot of artists who don't focus on one medium, who you can't pigeonhole.

And I'm interested in writing music that takes risks. My point is that maybe the term EDM is pinned on me and my buddies, but maybe it'll be less so if I experiment.

I wanna be remembered as someone who broke all the norms.

I like movies that don't fit in a category. Like, 'Get Out' - that was one of my favorite movies in a long time, and what is that?

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.

My particular space has always been quite unique in popular music. I have a background in R&B and hard rock and straight pop, but I never went all the way with any of those genres.

Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

In much postmodern theatre ... the line between theatre and non-theatre is deliberately erased.

We fly to 106 kilometers. We've always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn't want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you're an astronaut or not.

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

I wanted to find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock music.

Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs. They throw suspension bridges across great distances. These elegant and unexpected combinations flow together beautifully in the twilight zone, where metaphor and resemblance rules in place of logic and classification.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

Swavey, it puts more than one genre of music together. That's the approach I have with all music I do.

Ram Gopal Varma cannot have a genre at all. He creates genres.

What I love about Beyonce is she's not a slave to a genre of music.