Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Calvin Klein

It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.

Emilie Autumn

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

Conor Oberst

The only thing major labels can really offer is money.

Doris Lessing

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

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.

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.

Dave Van Ronk

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

Dave Van Ronk

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.

Danny Brown

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

Common

Not everyone is the same. You can't label a person just because of what they do or what they've done.

Amber Heard

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

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.

Gloria Steinem

Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.

Gloria Steinem

The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people.

Stephen Jay Gould

I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.

Douglas Hurd

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

I wear this label of a Christian filmmaker proudly.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

Anton Corbijn

In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.

Adam Jones

We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.

Melissa Leo

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

Betsey Johnson

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

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.

Phil Schiller

Sure, the labels and publishers get the rights for songs to be remade into a ringtone. So part of what we do is to work with those content owners to make sure that there are rights in place for every piece of content to be made into a ringtone.

Brendan Morrison

When you're labeled as an offensive team and you don't do it, it's a little frustrating, but you just have to stay with it. It's one game, but it's a step in the right direction.

We had a lot of screaming in the old albums. Major labels don't want that because it doesn't play on the radio.

Joe Perry

Music is music you don't have to put a label on it

John Engler

I don't put labels on myself.

Brian Smith

A more appropriate label would be Shiner Lager,