Genre Constraint Quotes

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

I can just be a Christian who sings mainstream music instead of having to be a Christian who has to somehow just sing Christian music.

I hate being put in a box labelled 'tropical house.'

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.

I am not a genre-based artist.

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

Genre is a minimum security prison.

I think a big part of 'American Idol' that scares people and actually has, I'm sure, stopped people from trying out is the fact that you do have to do things that are necessarily not your genre.

When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.