Genre Quotes

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.

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

I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

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.