Quotes About Genre

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 seen as literature.

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

Disco sure did suck.

I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music.

People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.

I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.

We are a metal band, period. To me, the 'nu' part infers some sort of a rap influence.

I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.

My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!

I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that are more rap have an R&B feel, so I'm with that.

There's not too many one-producer rap albums. There are lot of one-producer rock albums... and country albums.

I just like heavy music in general - from heavy rock and heavy metal and heavy rap and heavy everything. I've always been attracted to it.

I really don't think I have a genre, honestly, 'cause I make such different music even though it is rap.

I'm a fan of hip-hop. I'm a fan of rap, so anything new that's happening, I'm hip to it.

Even though 'Turn Down For What' is considered an EDM song, it's really a rap song.

Look at Pusha-T. He makes a certain type of rap music. 'Daytona' is that on the highest level.

No, I can't do rap music!

I've always been a fan of music. I listened to a whole lot of oldies - I never really listened to rap music that much.

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

You can't do gospel and rap. Either you're of the gospel music, or you're a rapper. You can't put the two together. You can, but is it right? It's questionable.

Jason Aldean is actually probably a really good rapper. He sounds like it to me.

Many people say Nicki Minaj is a rapper, but she's also a singer.

I don't think I'd call myself a rapper.