Labels Quotes

Hyperdub started in 2001 as a web magazine, but we also did a few events in the early days before becoming a label.

I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me as a label.

People label you the way they know you best.

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

I don't get involved in record label politics.

So are you bisexual?” I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label. “I guess I'm bipossible,” he had said.

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.

I don't really see a difference in independent and major labels. To me, it's pretty much the same. There used to be a difference between indies and major labels, but I don't think there is anymore.

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

We are what we are. We don't have to define it or label it.

The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity and throw it out the window.

Donald Trump is an independent presidential candidate who ran on the Republican label. He really did. He took it over. He transformed it into his image, in his likeness.

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.

In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone".

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for them, then you should get out of there if you're that artist.

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself.

I have so many plans! Sometimes it's hard to keep up because at this point it's just been me and the little bit of help my label gives me.

The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.

When you sign with a major label there is no guarantee that they are going to release it either unless you have a guarantee clause or a marketing clause.

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their own right.

The only label I would choose for myself is Christian, but if you pushed me and you say, 'What sort of Christian are you?' I'm an Anglican.

All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

I think any label is bad... I'm more than a label.

I don't like the intellectual label.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.

My label in Toronto was Stand Pat and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

What are the three most important rules of the chemist?" This I knew from Ben. "Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere.

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

The word is a label and I don't like it at all.

There are some things that you have to consider when using MySpace, and a lot of big labels don't do this.

The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!” She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN. “Open it!” Leo yelled again.

Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.

When the whole world is watch­ing you, they cre­ate sto­ries and give you labels that have noth­ing to do with you. It's almost impos­si­ble for you not to explode!

Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.