Quotes About Genre

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

Hunx was more punk, and Seth Bogart is more pop and plastic.

Heavy metal is the enemy. Everybody but me keeps going back and forth between metal and punk, but I'm narrow-minded and a purist. I'd never mess with it.

A lot of bands have to change what they sound like, but we are exactly the band that we want to be: a pop band, definitely, but we've got a rock and punk edge.

First of all, The Go-Go's have always had pop melodies, OK? And the punk aspect was just at the root of it.

When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we tried to break all the boundaries between musical genres.

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

I like a lot of the older country stuff. Shoot. We actually do really good in punk rock clubs. I don't really know where our fan base lies.

I've been criticized for doing so - crossover music. But I never claimed to be a pure dancehall artist.

The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films, and I think that's something that Pure Flix has been known for the movies we produce on the budgets that we do... our production values have elevated this genre.

One of the things I've always loved about genre, comic books, science fiction and fantasy is that there's a certain level of playfulness to them, and pure imagination and creativity.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.

My favourite genre is probably Seventies rock: Deep Purple, Black Sabbath. I love that stuff because it's what everyone was into when I was a teenager.

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

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.

I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.