Genre Quotes

• I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • People
  • Different
  • Enjoy

• It’s hard to come up with a single answer because we don’t fit into one genre. We’ve heard people say that we’re pop and others say we have more of an indie influence. Then there are moments where it feels haunting and intimate. Unique might be the best way to describe it.

  

  Sydney Sierota
  • Unique
  • Influence
  • Indie

• ... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart.

  

  Roger McGuinn The Byrds
  • Genre
  • Andres Segovia
  • Classical guitar

• I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It's always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.

  

  Catherine Mary Stewart
  • Character
  • Audience
  • Resonates

• La de couverte d'un mets nouveau fait plus pour le bonheur du genre humain que la de couverte d'une e toile. The discoveryof a newdish doesmore for thehappiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Mankind
  • Discovery
  • Genre

• I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Art
  • Approach
  • Boards

• This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture and lift it and elevate it. That was my thinking.

  

  Michael Chiklis
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Genre

• I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it's all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.

  

  Aaron Gillespie
  • Music
  • Creativity
  • Genre

• I try not to define my own music. I think we are the only ones in the genre that's of our own creation.

  

  Jussi Lehtisalo Circle
  • Music
  • Creation
  • Genre

• I think that part of the reason that 'Iron Man' was so successful was that we really chose to break new ground in a new area tonally, cast wise, the way we depict the hero, what his abilities are. It felt fresh in a genre that is beginning to feel stale if it's not done with the proper amount of inspiration and a strong voice or tone.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Strong
  • Inspiration
  • Hero

• Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

  

  Stjepan Hauser 2Cellos
  • Great
  • Music
  • Genre

• I don't know what genre you would put us into, and I'm always telling people that. When I'm trying to explain In This Moment's sound to them, all I can say is that its diverse-sounding, with influences such as metalcore's breakdowns, metal in general and some melodic rock.

  

  Maria Brink
  • Always
  • Sound
  • Explain

• B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • King
  • Blue
  • Guitar

• I don't gravitate toward any particular genre. I like to do things that interest me, regardless of genre. I've had a blast doing Cosmos, and I'm said that it's coming to an end. I would like to do something else like that.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Said
  • Interest
  • Ends

• Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • World
  • Musician

• You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Work
  • Audience
  • Break

• Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • Stories
  • Humorous
  • Western

• Aaron Spelling was a huge fan of vampires, and everything in that genre. He just really loved the entire subject of vampires and he was really passionate about it. If you really like the idea of this other world and the intricacies of it, because there were a lot of them, and once you're hooked, it's always something that's a fascination to you.

  

  Brigid Brannagh
  • Genre
  • Vampires
  • Aaron Spelling

• I am an open-minded person, so I would happily collaborate with other artists who share the same passion for music, regardless of the genre. I do consider that great things could also come from unexpected collaborations between people who have different cultural and musical backgrounds.

  

  Alexia Trif
  • Different
  • Genre
  • Collaborations

• Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader, keep an open mind. Edit, edit, and edit again. After you have written a great query letter, go to AgentQuery.com. This site is an invaluable resource that lists agents in your genre. Submit, accept rejection as part of the process, and submit again. And, of course, never give up.

  

  Kathleen Grissom
  • Never
  • Learn
  • Process

• Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis.

  

  Nicole Brossard
  • Energy
  • Unique
  • Force

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

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Type
  • Genre

• I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Thinking
  • Genre
  • Objects

• I think I like about coming-of-age stories is that there's everything in them. It's a genre that kind of contains everything: you have the chronicle, you can go into naturalism, but it's also about transforming physically, so it's kind of a fantastical genre.

  

  Celine Sciamma
  • Stories
  • Genre
  • Coming-Of-Age

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