Genres Quotes

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres. — Italo Calvino

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

I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man. — Todd Haynes

In Korea, I do different kinds of genres. So, like that, I would like to do a lot of good acting films. — Lee Byung-hun

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres. — Martin Henderson

Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things. — Jacob Bannon

Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. — Margaret Atwood

It's crazy to close doors to any genres. — David Lynch

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic. — Peter Jackson

I've spent my whole literary career blurring boundaries between genres and categories. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries. — Julianna Baggott

The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres. — Chuck Inglish

Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres. — Avicii

Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting. — Emma Stone

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes. — Bonnie Raitt

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical. — Octavia Butler

I have the death sentence in seven genres. — Jasper Fforde

Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents. — B.J. The Chicago Kid

If you don't appreciate all genres, then you'll never experience the true meaning and beauty of music. — Jon Luvelli

I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action, but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable. — Neil Marshall

I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage. — Edgar Wright

I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too. — Bruce Campbell

I'd like to extend my career a little bit into different genres. — Jason Sudeikis

I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences. — Cate Blanchett

By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop. — Natalie Cole

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time. — Denis Leary

Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style. — Julianna Baggott

I'd like to try different genres: comedy, period drama, rom-com, action. — Nina Dobrev

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people. — Tony Goldwyn

It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it. — David Lynch

I love mixing up my genres. — Rosanne Cash

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres. — Dean Geyer

The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres. — Terry Teachout

I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively. — Wendy Starland

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres. — Mika.

The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres. — Andrew Scott

I am all about switching between genres and doing as much as possible. — David Koechner

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres. — Debra Messing

I write across several genres. I'm a slut for words. I can't keep it in my literary pants. — Fierce Dolan

Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me. — Julianna Baggott

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite. — Jeff Daniels

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories. — Will Gluck

Where do you even draw the line between genres? — Guy Pearce

Artists in not only country but other genres usually make four or five albums, then they change producers to keep their sound moving forward. — Juice Newton

I've always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres. — Jonathan Lethem

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something). — Patrick Stump

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. — William H Gass

Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another. — Julianna Baggott

I'm very open to all different genres because I'm a very open-minded girl. — Gal Gadot

There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front. — Hillary Scott

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought. — Amanda Schull

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times. — Julianna Baggott

Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking. — Chet Williamson

I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges. — Amy Adams

I feel like every day I discover new actors and new filmmakers and different genres, and it's just so cool. — Hailee Steinfeld

My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans. — Gloria Estefan

I don't want to be held down by genres so much. — Randy Jackson

I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element. — Kid Rock

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater. — Joseph Gatt

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium. — Jeanette Winterson

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding. — Jon Weisman

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story. — Bella Thorne

I think country music is really one of the biggest genres of music out there and one the most successful genres. — Tim McGraw

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations. — Brian Pinkerton

I'm not educated about cinema or genres. — Imtiaz Ali

Life isn't divided into genres — Alan Moore

I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry. — Austin Carlile

I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible. — Linus Roache

I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae. — B.o.B

Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child. — Rokia Traore

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. — Herbie Hancock

I think the combination of action and the combination of comedy are two really, really good genres to meld together. — Neal H. Moritz

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction. — Stephen Graham Jones

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres. — Jasper Fforde

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me. — Tarsem Singh

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible. — Jay Roach

I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio. — B.J. The Chicago Kid

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres. — Miguel

The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could. — Dwayne Johnson

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth. — Maurice Druon

We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music. — Tom Waits

Similarly, when an author switches back and forth between wildly different genres, she also alienates her readers. — Emlyn Chand

of all genres Fantasy is the most rigid and structurally conventional. — Robert McKee

I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write. — Cassandra Clare

I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres. — Colin Cunningham

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks. — Aberjhani

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like. — Dwayne Johnson

Our lives are full of all the genres. Fear and hope and sadness. — Nicolas Roeg

The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not. — Tom Scharpling

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres. — Cillian Murphy

The real genres: good and bad. — Franz Grillparzer

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things. — Alison Brie

The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction. — Ellen Datlow

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres. — Nora Roberts

There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately. — Susanne Wuest

In Hollywood it's really tough to change genres; you have to re-prove yourself. — Drew Daywalt

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film. — Victoria Justice

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel. — Bruno Mars