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.

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.

Riz Ahmed

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

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

Betsey Johnson

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

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.

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