I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.
The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
I am a fan of the true crime and horror genres! So, I've got a dark side too.
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.
I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.
You're often looking at writing from writers who, for the most part, are working in forms that traditionally fit into other genres. But sometimes, in the midst of their better-known stuff, there's this wayward thing, and because it's wayward it isn't considered representative of their work, so it falls through the cracks.
A good song can be produced in several different genres.
I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.
The real genres: good and bad.
When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film.
If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.
Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.
I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.
All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.
Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.
History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.