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Quotes About Genre

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.
~ Freddie Hubbard
I'm mostly known for writing electro and aggressive bangery house music. But before I started making electro, and while I was making electro, this sort of gushy, make-the-ravers-cry sort of sentimentality is so important to me.
~ Porter Robinson
I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
~ Gabrielle Aplin
I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they do, I tend to take them off.
~ Clive Barker
My music is very diversified. I'll have a rock song then I'll do a ballad.
~ Jeremy Camp
I do sing ballads, but I'm not a balladeer. I'm not the next Celine Dion.
~ Jessica Sanchez
I always wrote ballads, and I always wrote rockers.
~ Eric Carmen
Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.
~ Ann Wilson
There are no great jazz-fusion bands.
~ Prince
In 'Bhram,' I have played an investment banker who is Sheetal Menon's love interest. I am very happy I did this film not only because it is my last film from this genre but also because it has been conceptualised and shot very well.
~ Dino Morea
I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.
~ Jessica Sanchez
I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was allowed to go out there.
~ John Densmore
If I'm being honest I hate the whole genre thing.
~ Guy Sebastian
I don't ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don't think the straight country acts view me as a straight country act, either - but I certainly belong to them.
~ Chris Stapleton
The medical genre is beloved, and there are so many great stories to be told - and that's why it's so popular.
~ Matt Czuchry
Did they have the same worries that I had, these absurd people? Did they have the sort of feelings I would even understand? It wasn't enough to say that they came from a different walk of life. It was more extreme, more final than that: they belonged to a different genre of existence altogether. One which actually horrified me …
~ Jonathan Coe
I always was passionate about science fiction and horror, and my parents enjoyed that as well.
~ Jane Goldman
I feel just as passionately about experimental electronic music as I do about folk music.
~ Weyes Blood
Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.
~ Emmylou Harris
I would agree 'Paul' is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.
~ Nick Frost
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 my mind that 'The Matrix' was genre.
~ Carrie-Anne Moss
I did not fix any genre for 'AK.' We just write a story and audience will put it in a genre as they perceive it.
~ Thiagarajan Kumararaja
We were perceived as a post-grunge band.
~ Daniel Johns
The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.
~ Kimbra