Genre Popularity Quotes

We went through an era of big dance records, an era of hip-hop being the biggest thing on the planet. The people who really break through are the people who are not afraid to express themselves in how they feel.

I wrote 'The Searcher' because I love westerns, and they've fallen out of fashion.

I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it.

Every once in a while, we have some sort of movement in music that everyone suddenly wants to work in, like grunge or rap or disco or some other musical phase, and then suddenly, that'll be the thing to do.

It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

It may not be 'mainstream,' but there's always a market for science fiction.

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

I love R&B because it got me to where I am today, but at the same time, R&B just doesn't sell.

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

When Aventura began, there was a lot of salsa and merengue, and we said, 'Let's just do what we do.' Then Aventura blew up, but urban was in its prime.

It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be mainstream.

I think R&B is way bigger in America. It's not really that mainstream in the U.K.

It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.

Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.

The medical genre is beloved, and there are so many great stories to be told - and that's why it's so popular.

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.

A lot of the metal bands that were around when Metallica put out 'The Black Album,' now they're playing clubs, and Metallica is playing stadiums.

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

I was very aware of the fact we were so out of fashion when I shot 'Chicago.' And I was trepidatious as to whether it would be seen or embraced by anybody, but I've never stopped believing in the genre. There's nothing like it. It's American-born.