Quotes About Genre

Aaron always maintained that genre writers were formulaic, predictable and had no respect for Craft. And romance was the least appealing of all the genres. Why bother reading a book when you knew what the outcome would be?

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.

I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money.

Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.

I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

I tend to gravitate away from the more trendy Ibiza style of dance music. It's not me.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.