Genre Boundaries Quotes

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

My job is not to make you happy. As a filmmaker and as an actor, my job is not to make you feel happy. If you're used to those kind of films, don't come and watch my films.

As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.

I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.

When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.

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.

I hate the idea of genres.

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

Where do you even draw the line between genres?

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

When I came up with the idea for 'Tuskegee,' I didn't want to be confined by boundaries of age, genre or demographics. I am thrilled with how well this album has been received by people from all walks of life. It is truly living up to the vision we had when we created it.

Rock's gone soft, it's gone miserable and boring, there's not really much exciting about it. So it's important that we cross over, because we feel like we belong more in a place where people just like music and it's not about how heavy it is.

I don't believe that what Tears for Fears has done, and continues to do, can be pigeonholed into a genre or decade.

All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to read them if they read them.

For me jazz is kind of an extension of hip-hop. Kind of the sad thing is that a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there's not a lot of crossover, unfortunately.

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

I'm not technically adept at music, but I'd love to be part of a discussion of where progressive rock ends and country music begins.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing is punk rock.

It may be time for serious literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and the movies.

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.