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Quotes About Genre

If you think of any strange fusion with bachata, most likely, we've done it. It's bachata mixed with different elements. We don't follow any style.
~ Romeo Santos
The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.
~ Robin Gibb
I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.
~ Billy Sheehan
I never thought that I would be creating my own 'cross-over' genre. What I did was very real and organic. I have worked in so many different styles so it all just came together.
~ Sarah Brightman
Major differences in projects happen due to budget, director's styles, and genre of script, not industry.
~ Tena Desae
It's incredibly fun as an actor to get to play different styles and different genres for completely different audiences.
~ Morena Baccarin
I've worked with Childish Gambino for so long, so I've learned that from those producing skills - how to really produce music - where, of course, it's about writing, but it's also about combining sounds and styles and genres.
~ Ludwig Goransson
AJ Styles is of a different genre, and he's a wonderful part of wrestling, doing things that a lot of guys can't do.
~ Terry Funk
I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.
~ Mark Sheppard
Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to break down, and there's going to be a multitude of sound coming out.
~ Steve Aoki
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
~ Jeffery Deaver
I love the horror genre for how cinematic it is. I gravitated, I think, initially, toward the horror genre because, of all the genres, I think it is the genre that is most friendly to the subject matter of faith and belief in religion.
~ Scott Derrickson
The submarine genre is a category with all its own rules. But shooting on water is famously tough.
~ Kevin Macdonald
I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I don't mind doing genre roles as long as they offer me something substantial.
~ Radhika Apte
In Socrates' time, an orator was accustomed to ask his audience which genre or mode of expression was preferred: myth i.e., narrative-- or logical argumentation? In the age of the book, this decision cannot be left to the audience: the choice must be made in order for the book to exist and one merely imagines (or hopes for) an audience that will have given one answer rather than the other; one also tries to listen to the answer suggested or imposed by the subject itself.
~ Tzvetan Todorov
I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.
~ Uwe Boll
Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.
~ Vanna Bonta
If you look at 'The Best Man, ' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.
~ Malcolm D. Lee
I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.
~ Rene Russo
I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.
~ John Cale
Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.
~ Teddy Thompson
Holy shit! That's a vampire. He's writing a vampire novel. And I thought, this is the most tired cliche that anybody could dredge up out of the genre, and he just made it jump.
~ Peter Straub
the materials of genre - specifically the paired genres of horror and the fantastic - in no way require the constrictions of formulaic treatment, and in fact naturally extend and evolve into the methods and concerns of its wider context, general literature.
~ Peter Straub (Author)