Zitat des Tages über Kategorisieren / Categorize:
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
I just want to make great music. There's not a genre that I would categorize it as, but I want it to be true and authentic.
With anything I do, it's hard to categorize it. With any project, I just go in and blindly start writing songs and then find out which way we want to go with it.
I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!
I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can things be categorized in so many different ways, all of which can seem equally valid?
In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am.
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.
I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.
I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.
I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.
My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me.
In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.
I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.