Blending Genres Quotes

My music is very diversified. I'll have a rock song then I'll do a ballad.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!

In particular, what I loved about 'Creep' and 'The One I Love' was the combination of naturalism, horror, and comedy that felt kind of new and fun.

In high drama or high tragedy or anything, it's not really human unless there's some humor at the same time. And vice versa. So I guess I tend to gravitate towards projects which tread a dodgy tightrope between two things, which aren't really one or another.

Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

Rock and ambient music might as well reside on opposite sides of the galaxy, so it's almost shocking when a band like Deerhunter melds the two so effectively.

I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define something like that ? - I just say this: It's music. Either it's good or it's bad; either you like it or you don't

If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster stories, right from the beginning of my career. I've always moved back and forth between the genres. I don't really recognise that there's a significant difference between them in some senses.

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

I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.

I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

I come out of an academic background, and I'm aware that what I'm doing is simultaneously research and fiction. I want to meet both those obligations.

I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or quarter-fiction. The two should not go together. They cannot mix.

I feel like we've found an interesting little corner of the sandbox here as far as the way we're telling sci-fi stories. I don't think it's limited to sci-fi - I think anything fantastic can co-exist with people you and I know, and not these hyper-real movie people.

When I wrote 'Southern Baptist Sissies,' that was the first time that I really ventured out into pure drama with themes where there was not one laugh sometimes. But I've always gravitated organically to blending tones and usually get good reviews about that. That's what life is about.

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

Being genre-bending doesn't really cross my mind. I don't consider anyone I work with a specific genre.

I love doing kind of more kiddish-oriented movies, but I also love doing adult things. And I think it's fun to do a mix.

I'm trying to bring a little bit of every type of sauce into one type of sound. Something that's really fresh.

I'm kind of like a rapper trapped in a singer's body.

I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.