Genres Of Music Quotes

• Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Jazz, Genre

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• I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.

  Thia Megia

  Feels, Versatile, Comfortable

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• I try not to discriminate against genres.

  Ryan Gosling

  Trying, Genre

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

  Mika

  Thinking, Genre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Jobs, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Song, Night

  “Kid Rock: What I've Learned” by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. April 20, 2011.

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• Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

  Miguel

  Other Cultures, Black, Culture

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• I like so many different genres of music that I guess it would be hard for me to pick one person who inspires me when so many people inspire me to make good music.

  Rahki

  People, Inspire, Different

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• I don't exist to build a genre. I exist to build the Kingdom.

  LeCrae

  Kingdoms, Genre

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• No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Country, Couple, Artist

  "Harry Connick Jr. Talks DOLPHIN TALE 2, Balancing His Music and Movie Career, AMERICAN IDOL and His New Album". collider.com. September 14, 2014.

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• If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

  Geezer Butler

  Music, Boys, Poison

  "GEEZER BUTLER - 'The '80's Were The Worst Period For Metal'". Metal Exiles Interview, bravewords.com. March 24, 2005.

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• Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

  Nicole Richie

  Country, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Nicole Richie Grows Up". "Interview Magazine" Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

  Keith Urban

  Thinking, Vanity, People

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• If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

  Bootsy Collins

  Funny, Music, Song

  "Journalists must stop being in denial: bloggers are here to stay" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2005.

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• From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

  Tom Araya

  Music, Country, Song

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Music, Strong, Smart

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• People get bored of hearing the same genre of music over and over again. Observe the current musical landscape and predict what "mood" people will be in next. Ask yourself what would be the most natural transition or reaction to the current genre. Then create it!

  Wendy Starland

  Bored, People, Musical

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• For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  Writing, Past, Thinking

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• To me, the most important tool is not a physical or a technical one. It's more of a cerebral one. It's your brain. It's about having an interest in experimenting musically, perhaps touching on several different genres of music. No doubt, the most important tool is the mind. It's the willingness to experiment freely.

  Mike Portnoy

  Touching, Brain, Mind

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• Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

  Erykah Badu

  Government, Hip Hop, Hips

  "Song: “The Healer”". 2008.

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• I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. It just is my rule that I don't break because ... I can't do it authentically ... I really think that you're just hard-wiring (synapses) in your brain up until the age of maybe 12 or 10, and there are certain things you can't learn in an authentic way after that.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Thinking, Brain, Age

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• You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music.

  Jimmy Webb

  Music, Beautiful, Country

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• I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Ideas, Jazz, Form

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• I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room.

  David Byrne

  Phones, Play, Ipods

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. September 22, 2008.

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• I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me.

  Guy Picciotto

  Emo, Hate, Stupid

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