Quotes About Genre

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time.

When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.

I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk.

Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis had enormous talent, and Elvis was the major contributor to an entirely new genre of music. Sometimes their exploits were distasteful to people, but they left behind an enormous body of work that endures.

The rom-com genre is not something that necessarily lights my jets.

Jim Rollins is the king of the weird science action genre.

The Turn of the Screw" has been turned and returned through a large number of critical approaches, perhaps only rivaled in this regard by Hamlet. The spectrum of critical approaches ranges from Freudian, to feminist, to gay, to materialist, partly because the complexity of the first-person narrative lends itself to analysis and partly because the tale also offers an engaging twist on the traditional genre of the ghost story.

Walter Mosley was not the first black crime writer, nor was he the first to fuse genre conventions with larger social concerns. But when 'Devil in a Blue Dress' introduced the Los Angeles-based private detective Easy Rawlins nearly 20 years ago, it was clear the author set out to stretch the boundaries of the mystery and thriller framework.

The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

'Ouija' has a steady directorial hand, some attractive young actors who taking the silliness seriously, and few admirable genre elements. It renounces the faux-found-footage ShakyCam style, instead employing a traditionally smooth visual style.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.

Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.

Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity.

With 'Mismatched,' we hope to bring back the Young Adult drama/ teenage drama genre.

After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.

I fell in love with R&B music at a young age. The energy and aesthetic of that genre strike an emotional chord with me.

People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy.

I grew up listening to a lot of emo music, a lot of rock music, a lot of rap music, a lot of trap music, funk, everything.

When you from Down South, it's, 'You're a trap rapper,' 'You're a street rapper.' They try to put you in a category.

We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier.