Quotes About Genre

Robert Bloch taught me about mixing horror and humor.

I think I sing a few songs, and I sing them well, and one of them is the mob genre, you know, as a writer.

We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally.

The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood.

I don't really consider my music anything other than 'moody.' I don't know if that's a genre.

The Moody Blues was very big in France, because they liked that we were basically playing blues.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

Motown was pop, Atlantic was R&B.

The impulse to explain is the Achilles' heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to expose their worlds to the sharp knife of intellection.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

I do love country music.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

Maybe it's the rogue in me, the part of me that loves to color outside the lines, but the truth is, I don't have much respect for genre barriers.

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

I'm interested in genre in a way, I suppose because you have a framework of something and you can just twist it to explore the psychology or try different subversive ideas on something that feels familiar.

I can't see a Twisted Sister on the country charts.

Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff' with a double f - always seemed to me to be about tacky, harum-scarum horror, and I find that anything but scary. That wasn't what we were about at all.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

As a performer, once you've understood the genre of musical theatre, you can tire very quickly of the two-dimensional stuff. With Sondheim, it's always a challenge. It's difficult and exhilarating and he's so good on the complexities of relationships and on things going wrong.