Genre Transformation Quotes

I think people just have to realize that music grows, and hip-hop evolves. I mean, everything evolves.

America used to say that hip-hop was a cancer. Then it embraced that cancer and realized, 'Hey, this isn't a bad thing. It is part of us, just more America.'

One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy.

Coming from 'V' into 'Homeland' was a really big change and the best gift as an actor you can get - which is to transform so drastically from one genre to the next, from lizard to human being!

Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

Country music will never be the same.

I remember when we were doing "Batman Begins" and to watch Chris Nolan go from "Memento" to "Batman" and take that leap from such a smaller size to a big movie, that's inspiring. But those movies are their own type of art and you have to really understand it and really know that world and I would have to take a long time to figure that out.Because my brain doesn't naturally go there.

When the blues came out, it was something pure and undefined, but when all these white groups got hold of it, it became something else that didn't sound anything like the original. So you had Led Zeppelin doing their thing, which had come all the way from the blues.

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

Everything changes in every genre, whether it's pop, rock or country.

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

I know it's dangerous to say you want to do something different with a genre because people always take that as an insult to the genre.