Quotes About Genre

When you think about the OG scream queens and all of the incredible women who have really defined this genre, such as Jamie Lee Curtis, they are all so talented and so multidimensional.

My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.

I quit school. I don't do good in following police guidelines or restrictions. For someone to put rules on a genre of music or put me in a category of rap, I can't even see how you can do that.

I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it means you get to write in any genre that you like.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

I used to think of 'alternative rock' as a radio format, kind of the way 'indie rock' used to have more meaning. But it means different things depending on where you are or what country you're in.

When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.

When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

I don't think the Ramones knew they were inventing punk. They were trying to be rockabilly.

I have been fortunate at being part of a contrasting genre of films and I portrayed a huge range of characters in these two decades.

Rock music is a funny thing: You can actually take it too far sometimes, and then it's not rock music anymore - it's something else, but it's not rock.

I love country and rock, and I wanted to fuse them together. But I also knew that there were certain elements that needed to still be there to be both country and cater to my old fans.

I'd even say possibly I'm one of the best gamers in the NBA. I play everything. I play every single type of genre game.

My record's all electric, and that's why I call it 'garage country.'

By fusing R&B with a U.K. garage sound, you can create energy. 'Fill Me In' showed me that.

With 'Apollo 13,' I wasn't sure the genre would work, because space films hadn't done that well.

I have a great affection for comics, and I think that people underrate comics as a genre.

I don't write to a genre.

I love 'Koi Aane Ko Hai.' It is my favourite show because I believe in this genre.