Labels Quotes

It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.

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.

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

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.

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

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.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you'll be able to figure out really easily what's good for you and what's bad.

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.

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.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

When people warn me about someone - the label head or the publishing head - that somebody is difficult, I'm in heaven.

The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed [of major labels]. The more people involved, the slower the pace.

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

I'm a big Urban Outfitters girl, and Forever 21 - I don't think labels make fashion. I think it's your own style, what you put together.

Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins.

I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money.

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.

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.

The only thing major labels can really offer is money.

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.

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.

She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even as a history lesson. These are ways to make the film feel niche and not for everyone.

Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

Your only identity is I AM undefined and infinite. Any label you give yourself limits yourself.

If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.

I'm not sure what the proper label might be, or the most accurate one, but someone once called my stuff Southern Ohio Gothic and I thought that was fair.

I don't like labels necessarily because a label doesn't mean very much. But when it comes to being conservative, I happen to be conservative.

I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear.

I'm going to keep proving people wrong, whether it's my record label, other artists.

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

Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm

Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again.

When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

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.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.

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.

At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don't think I get enough interference from my record label.

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.

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.

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.

Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

Running a label in 2013, you don't do it for any financial purpose, you do it for all the amazing creative aspects of what you can achieve.