Genre Quotes - page 18

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under. (Taylor Swift)
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under. View quote
Taylor Swift
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music. View quote
Taylor Swift
There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it. View quote
Melissa Etheridge
Punk is an attitude, not a genre, age group, or time period. What's interesting is trying to define the blues and punk in different ways. They are very close cousins. View quote
Jack White
Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off. View quote
Thomas Frank
To me, some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise, some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies. View quote
Paul Rudd
Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins. View quote
John Scalzi
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. View quote
Anne Lamott
"... his work gradually became identifiably Simakian - constrained, intensely emotional beneath a calmly competent Genre SF surface; tales deeply Pastoral in the sense that his idylls, his Edens, were almost inevitably supported by some superior civilization, sometimes urban... View quote
Clifford D. Simak
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
I came late to the genre of folk music. View quote
Tom Morello
Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in. View quote
Joss Whedon
For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making. View quote
Clive Barker
I love working on genre films. View quote
François-Eudes Chanfrault
Alfred E. van Vogt, since the appearance of his first two stories - "Black Destroyer" and "Discord in Scarlet" (Astounding Science Fiction, July and December 1939) the most memorable debut in the long history of the genre - has been a giant. View quote
Harlan Ellison
Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre. View quote
Billy Corgan
I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way. View quote
Gillian Schieber Flynn
I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world. View quote
Patrick Stump
The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision. View quote
Stewart Copeland
Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. (R. A. Salvatore)
Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. View quote
Henry Rollins
I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre. View quote
China Miéville
I refute that-I think that those are inevitable components, but it's the surrendering to the impossible, the weird, that characterizes genre. View quote
China Miéville
Probably the best explanation for my success and other Internet writers, is that we're tapping a genre or a niche out there that needs to be filled and isn't. View quote
Tucker Max