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

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.

Alan Light

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

Al Yankovic

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

Aimee Mann

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

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.

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.

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.

I can't put labels ? on these materials,

Jonny Lang

I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.

Shawn Colvin

I think when you have a record that makes money, there's pressure, sure, ... The label wanted another big seller, and I did, too.

You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it's a do-or-die type thing.

Art Alexakis

Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.

Tift Merritt

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

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.

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

John Abraham

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

Doris Lessing

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

Dalai Lama

Furthermore, I shall explain the nature of dharmata: Such a nature as this cannot be determined to be any one thing. So however you label it, that is how it appears.

Riz Ahmed

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

Anais Nin

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

Chuck D.

I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money.

Amber Heard

I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.

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.

Kailash Kher

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

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