Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

Betty Wright

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

Denzel Washington

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

Alan Light

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

Barry White

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

Diana Ross

I have never gotten into the label thing.

Bruce Springsteen

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

Brian Setzer

As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

Tift Merritt

When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

Brian McKnight

The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.

Deepak Chopra

Take away all your labels and you are the Infinite Being.

Alice Walker

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Caroline Thompson

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.

Cam Newton

But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.

Jaime Camil

The projects I have done on television, they're sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that's why they're labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they're sitcoms because they're situational comedies.

Tika Sumpter

I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - personally, I wasn't ready to get out there. I don't know. It was a pop group. Not like the Spice Girls, but when you don't have any control over anything, it's disheartening.

Kailash Kher

The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.

Dylan Moran

Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.

I like to think of myself as my own guy. I don't want to be labeled as a Tea Party guy, but I'm not necessarily against their agenda.

Hal Newhouser

I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.

Chino Moreno

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

Ezra Taft Benson

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Ray LaMontagne

The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single... and tell you, it's not gonna sell... that's what the label does.

Riz Ahmed

I'm always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.

I'd rather be on a label that understands us and allows us to be a bit odd.

Taryn Manning

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

K'naan

I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

Jamie Redknapp

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

I can't put labels ? on these materials,

John Abraham

I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

I don't know that it's ever been tested in court, but the law does label it a crime.

Al Yankovic

I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.