A Quote by Gilbert O'Sullivan

Some artists say 'Don't categorize me.' I'm saying 'You can't categorize me.'

Gilbert O'Sullivan

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Artists Categorize Me Say Saying Some

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Gilbert O'Sullivan
Irish - Musician
Born: December 1, 1946

To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.

St. Jerome

I think that it's human nature to categorize and label things. That's generally the way that the medical and psychological professions work. You look at elements of what you have, and you are able to categorize it, and then you can cure it. That's generally what works.

Michael Finkel

I wouldn't categorize myself as R&B or hip-hop. I don't really know how to categorize myself. I'm still working out where I fit with that stuff. I kind of think of myself as pop.

Jacob Anderson

There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves.

Mannie Fresh

I see, or at least it appears to me, that there is some concerted effort to discredit them, and categorize the American Indian Movement as some adverse entity, as opposed to it being a manifestation of the desperations of a whole race of people.

Leonard Peltier

We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.

Billy Squier

Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.

Ali Banisadr

I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

Alan Dershowitz

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.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

Johnny Otis

For some people, they may categorize it as "gay love". And for me, I simply see it as love. And there's no corner of the universe where love cannot abide and grow.

Jennifer Beals

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.

Taylor Swift

I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.

Steve Martin

I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another.

Benjamin Carson

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.