Quotes About Genre

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

I'm a real gangster rapper and I'm a rapper. I just think my music takes different directions. I don't think you can pigeon hole me in one genre. I'm probably the most versatile in the game, period.

I'm sorry, I don't listen to country music.

I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

There's only two kinds of music I don't like....Country and Western.

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

Some say it's too country, some say it's too rock n' roll. But it's just good music if you can feel it in your soul.

When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.