Genre Transcendence Quotes

I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre.

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

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

I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.

Great music is the only genre that actually matters, and the members of that club are far more similar to each other than they are to any genre they might be commonly associated with.

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

'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?

In the culture at large, the war over science fiction's creative validity has been long since won, but guardians at the gates of literature, movies, and TV linger unconvinced, even as other genres fitfully transcend critical perceptions of insubstantiality.

It's whatever - people like me and Dre are music people, so we're beyond just hip-hop. We're purists. Not everybody who makes beats is a purist.

I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.