Labels famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.
-- Aaron Belz -
I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual,' but bi-curious? Yea.
-- Adam Lambert -
So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.
-- Adam Rich -
A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.
-- Adam Rich -
You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.
-- Adam Rich -
I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way. ---Yasu
-- Ai Yazawa -
You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.
-- Alan Light -
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
-- Alan Sokal -
I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.
-- Alison Moyet -
I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.
-- Amber Heard -
I don't label myself one way or another. I love who I love; it's the person that matters.
-- Amber Heard -
We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.
-- Anais Nin -
I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage.
-- Andrew Bird -
Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.
-- Andrew Solomon -
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.
-- Ani DiFranco -
I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.
-- Arlen Specter -
My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.
-- Arlen Specter -
Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities,
-- Artur Davis -
Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.
-- Babyface -
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.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it.
-- Barbara Gittings -
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
-- Barbara Kruger -
Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.
-- Barry Lyga -
Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
-- Barry White -
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
-- Ben Shahn -
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.
-- Bertrand Russell -
My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.
-- Betsey Johnson -
I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.
-- Bill Frisell -
You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.
-- Billy Sherwood -
The music business will be revitalized by musicians, not the labels or Live Nation. When the musicians decide to put music first, instead of money, the public will flock to the fruits and the scene will be healthy again.
-- Bob Lefsetz -
Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal
-- Bobby Sands -
The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding
-- Boyd Rice -
Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.
-- Bram Fischer -
It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.
-- Brian McKnight -
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.
-- Brian Setzer -
You had to pick something like Blue Suede Shoes because it's the flagship of the Sun label, but then I wanted to dig down and find something like Rakin' and Scrapin'.
-- Brian Setzer -
Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'
-- Bruno Mars -
Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.
-- Bryan Batt -
I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label,
-- Bryan Ferry -
Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.
-- C.D. Wright -
If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.
-- Cara Delevingne -
You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.
-- Carine Roitfeld -
I'm so excited that my label Rocker Records has partnered with Cleopatra Records to put out this collection of RARE and UNIQUE kick ***** rock !!!
-- Carmine Appice -
Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'
-- Carol S. Dweck -
Personally, I resent being tagged ‘glamour girl.’ It’s such an absurd, extravagant label. It implies so much that I’m not.
-- Carole Lombard -
People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.
-- Carrot Top -
When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.
-- Catherine Tate -
I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.
-- Charles Frazier -
I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.
-- Chris Martin -
We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.
-- Christine Gregoire -
I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money.
-- Chuck D -
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
-- Chuck D -
I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.
-- Chuck Mangione -
How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Not everyone is the same. You can't label a person just because of what they do or what they've done.
-- Common -
I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.
-- Conor Oberst -
God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.
-- Craig Groeschel -
I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
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.
-- Danny Brown -
It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
-- Darius Rucker -
Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.
-- Darius Rucker -
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.
-- 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 -
I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.
-- David Arquette -
It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.
-- David Baldacci -
the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.
-- David Levithan -
Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.
-- David Maister -
Take away all your labels and you are the Infinite Being.
-- Deepak Chopra -
To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.
-- Deepak Chopra -
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
-- Dick Cavett -
Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.
-- Dougray Scott -
Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.
-- Drew Carey -
My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.
-- Eddie Izzard -
I looked at my family and I said, "I've got a spouse. I've got three kids. There's no way I'm ever buying a music subscription service for the five of us. It's just not going to happen." So we wanted to do something really great for families... It wasn't easy. We had to convince the labels it was in their best interests, too.
-- Eddy Cue -
Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
-- Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release , or repackage it any way they so choose... with or without the permission of the artist.
-- Edgar Winter -
You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.
-- Edward Norton -
So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.
-- Edward Whitacre, Jr. -
I think that every record label has its trials and tribulations, its ups and downs. The only thing you can do is hope to recognize what it is that makes you great, and to try and continue to capture it.
-- El-P -
I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.
-- El-P -
It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, "This is who you are. This is what you are.
-- Elizabeth Scott -
There is no back label with a story on a beer can.
-- Ely Callaway Jr. -
I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.
-- Emeli Sande -
Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.
-- Emeli Sande -
I think you've got to keep it simple, keep it fresh. Stay away from all that processed stuff, read the labels.
-- Emeril Lagasse -
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.
-- Emraan Hashmi -
If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,
-- Eric Holder -
I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.
-- Erin Gruwell -
I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.
-- Erma Bombeck -
All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
-- Erykah Badu -
I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.
-- Ester Dean
