Labels Quotes

Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.

I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.

All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.

I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.

I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.

If it's a good record or a good recording, then word of mouth will build for that reason, not before the fact, not before anyone's heard it, not because of MySpace or the label.

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

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.

I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.

Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.

The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.

When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

When a label is throwing money at you, you have to recoup it.

Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to go is to sign these big names like Lady Gaga and expect to make gazillions.

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.

The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.

Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling.

Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way.

My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.

Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.

People, places and experiences aren’t meant to be labeled and judged, they are meant to be loved and appreciated, since deep down inside, the nature we all share is love, light and happiness.

Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes.

Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves.

Stay away from people who don't know who they are but want you to be just like them. People who'll want to label you. People who'll try to write their fears on your face.

I don't subscribe to labels. Unless I'm labeling other people.

A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

If you haven't proclaimed it in your own life, do it now. Say, "I am an artist.

I want topeel away all the labelsI had once given to othersand place themupon the fabricof my own identity.They have reflected back to me, everything that I refuseto See in myself.

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

The World is quick to label you, but it will take ages to take a stand!

Do not settle for labels that presume you will never heal. Believe in yourself. Find a tribe who understands and believes in you too. Don't ever give up.

Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.

This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.

I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category.