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One thing about Foster the People is that it's taking pieces of a lot of different genres of music and kind of melding them together.
By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
I always have been very musically influenced because of my dad. He had a very big record collection, so I dabbled in different genres.
The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.
The upside to doing commercials is you have to work in a lot of different genres and make stuff that you never thought you'd be making.
I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to be the music.
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades.
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.
By erasing barriers of races, colors, continents, genres, or languages, we can achieve the whole world moving their head to the same beat.
At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that people are doing, to do them in a fresh way.
I think you can spread yourself across any number of genres when you're a writer as long as you have a deep, abiding love for each of them.
I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.
I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
I like songs in all different genres and types. My production and songwriting is everything from pop rock to hip-hop and everything in between.
The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres.
As an actor you get to play different roles and genres. I feel that it pleases and satisfies me to do different genres as it can get repetitive.
I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.
People don't think of genres anymore. The script is all that matters. And as long as it appeals to my sensibilities as an actor-producer, I'm on.
There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.
I want people to appreciate my efforts in creating different genres of music and also the fact that I am now taking to acting in my own production.
I don't really follow genres. I have a bunch of really poppy tracks and then another super-low-fi, tape-recorded sound. It's actually really random.
We dance to difference genres such as krumping, ballet and hip-hop, together with invited foreign choreographers who are well-known internationally.
I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible.
I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.
All genres of music have to evolve, grow, and expand in order to maintain. I don't think there's anything wrong with the growth of R&B. I welcome it.
Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.
Comedy is one of the hardest genres. You can tell if it's working or not. If the director is convinced of the vision, you have to have faith in that.
I like all music... My parents both just loved music from all genres. I don't have a favorite; I just love music. That's why I want to play the piano.
I tried my hand in action films, and now I am back to love stories, as people like to see me as a lover boy! But as an actor, I want to try all genres.
I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.
I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
Rick Rubin is super intriguing to me because he has become this god producer in completely drastically different genres, which very few people have done.
I want to work in different genres with varied teams across different industries and to get as much of an enriching experience as I can. That is my wish.
My music is pretty versatile; I have a lot of genres and styles. I don't think I should be pigeonholed into one thing. So we'll see where my career goes.
I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.
It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.
When you look at metal, it's probably one of the healthiest genres when you look at it in a worldwide perspective - every single country listens to metal.
I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.
I just make music however I feel and pray that it connects, and if it does, I'm super thankful. I think genres are more for other people, not for yourself.
I love changing my roles. I think the most important thing that I can do for myself is to keep changing the genres, the periods, the characters themselves.
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.
I really look up to people who experiment in all areas and I think Johnny Depp is a really good actor to look up to because he's done so many genres of films.
I'm influenced by a lot of different genres of music. So I'm constantly trying to rework production and make things interesting in the live show and on records.
I think there's really healthy ways to segue into different roles and different genres. I'm not completely opposed to shaving my head and doing something crazy.
I like so many kinds of music, and I work with so many kinds of music as a producer. When you work in 14 different genres, I find myself writing in those genres.