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Genre Quotes

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Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.
Carlos Fuentes

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2.
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Herbie Hancock

3.
I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.
Skrillex

4.
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
Leslie Banks

5.
Animation is a technique, not a genre.
Gore Verbinski

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Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.
Billy Corgan

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Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres.
Avicii

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I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.
Priyanka Chopra

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In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
Alan Dundes

10.
Vampires are a genre now.
Joseph Morgan

11.
All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.
Pedro Almodovar

12.
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
Chester Bennington

13.
I try not to discriminate against genres.
Ryan Gosling

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I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.
Mika

15.
Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.
Ruskin Bond

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The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
Christopher Nolan

17.
There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide.
Matthew Healy

18.
I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.
Wong Kar-wai

19.
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.
Andre Bazin

20.
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
Walter Benjamin

21.
Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.
Bruce Campbell

22.
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
Paul Di Filippo

23.
It doesn't matter to me what the genre is.
Steve Buscemi

24.
What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.
Theo James

25.
I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.
Herbie Hancock

26.
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
Tanith Lee

27.
I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.
Kathy Bates

28.
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
George A. Romero

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A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.
Vikas Swarup

30.
I love mixing up my genres.
Rosanne Cash

31.
'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.
Junot Diaz

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

33.
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
Walter Jon Williams

34.
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

35.
I've never really been into the sci-fi genre myself.
Marie Avgeropoulos

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I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
Jeanette

37.
I would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre.
DJ Shadow

38.
I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre
Jason Marsden

39.
When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.
David Hayter

40.
I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.
Thomas Jane

41.
I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
Nora Roberts

42.
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti – while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.
S. T. Joshi

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I don't like to label films with a genre.
Tom Felton

44.
After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
Bruce Willis

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I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
Terry Pratchett

46.
As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.
Sanjay Dutt

47.
I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.
Keith Carradine

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

49.
I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.
Joyce DiDonato

50.
There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.
Amadeo Bordiga