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Quotes About Genre

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
~ Ozzy Osbourne
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
~ Neil Young
I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.
~ Kyle MacLachlan
I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.
~ Alaina Huffman
There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
It takes a certain type of rapper for me to really get into the album.
~ Shawn Mendes
My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.
~ James Durbin
My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop.
~ Lauren Alaina
I am really happy that even though I am stuck in the comedy genre I have not been typecast. I am still getting to experiment a lot with my characters, which is a boon.
~ Neha Pendse
I thought that after 'Hate Story 3,' people are going to typecast and offer me the same roles. But, I have been lucky enough to be offered almost all different genres.
~ Zareen Khan
For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.
~ Avicii
I just love music. Every genre of music: country, rock. I originally first loved punk rock. Pop punk. I don't know, just rock in general. And getting to rap. And now K-pop. Different types of music. I love everything.
~ Amber Liu
I have very different kinds of songs - there are these film-music-type of songs, and then metal, metal, metal, ha-ha! These are different kinds of styles, so not every musician can play both types of music.
~ Tarja Turunen
A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You name me any genre, and I can give you a list of artists I adore.
~ Adam Rodriguez
I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that.
~ Dustin Lynch
When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.
~ Ben Barnes
I guess I didn't even know the word 'genre' until I did 'True Blood.' That's how naive I was, and I didn't realize that there was a point of view about certain types of TV. And so I guess I found it disappointing that there is a segment of the critical community that looks at genre as something that is separate, less than.
~ Denis O'Hare
The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.
~ Paul Di Filippo
When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
~ Ted Naifeh
Certainly, there is a tendency to lump women who write similar types of books together, and it's not just in crime, is it? Women's fiction is supposedly a whole genre of itself. There's no male equivalent.
~ Paula Hawkins
I love all types of music, and I think the genre lines are starting to get thinner every year.
~ Maren Morris
I'm looking for all types of sounds. Anything that has soul and funk in it, no matter the genre.
~ Kaytranada
We listen to so many different types of music, so it's easy for us to play a different genre or style and it be true to what we do.
~ Coy Bowles