Genre Inclusivity Quotes

No genre of music is better than another, whether it's country, hip-hop, trap, classical, whatever. It's all music.

Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.

I love traditional country music, and I feel like there's a need for it and a want for it. But I enjoy everybody in country music.

Don't dismiss Auriemma and UConn just because their excellence shines on the female side of the coin.

It's crazy to close doors to any genres.

I feel like if you turn on country radio, you will find something you'll love because it's so diverse.And that's a great thing.

As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit - subliterature.

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.

There's something about fantasy and sci-fi that seems more welcoming of different ethnicities.