Label Quotes

#1. I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

John Niven

#2. I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

Thelma Houston

#3. Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

Joe Perry

#4. Did you know that more than 65% of the people who label themselves "born again Christians" seldom or never read the Bible? Of those who do read the Bible, did you know that the majority only read it during church or organized group Bible studies?

James A. Durham

#5. A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label.

Ryan Lilly

#6. He had been diagnosed as suffering from atypical schizophrenia. Lord, how he hated that awful-sounding label. It conjured up visions of some deranged maniac escaped from a secure mental hospital.

Etienne De L'Amour

#7. The nice thing about working for a label like Domino is that there's no pressure: They've got a roster of 40 active bands, and they can bang out an album or single in a week, so it's not the end of the world to not have a Max Tundra album in 2005.

Max Tundra

#8. Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed.

Steve Albini

#9. My label, my team and I are always looking to get involved with positive things.

Sevyn Streeter

#10. If there was a crayon, and I was to put a label on it, I would call it dinosaur skin.
-So B. It

Sarah Weeks

#11. I produced the Buckcherry album and I just finished a band called American Pearl on Wind-Up Records. That's Creed's label. They're pretty rocking. Now I'm looking for another band to produce.

Steve Jones

#12. I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions.

Roxane Gay

#13. Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label.

Sasa Stanisic

#14. My name is Ellen and I'm a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I've said it ...

Ellen DeGeneres

#15. Issues need to be addressed. So do boxes of bricks that need to be mailed. Make the shipping label out to Kat Nelb, 2332 Blanket Anagram Way, Jacksonville, Fl 3223.

Jarod Kintz

#16. No, it wasn't the words so much as the fact that she used an authentic label maker to send me the message. Damn, I felt an instant connection to this woman

Morgan Parker

#17. Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. - DAVID ROSENHAN,

Jon Ronson

#18. There is no late-night comedy. You watch comedy, you watch whenever you want to tune on. You can it in the middle of the night. You can it in the morning. It's all comedy. They just label it late-night comedy so they don't have to pay as much.

George Schlatter

#19. If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

John Lydon

#20. My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

Wyclef Jean

#21. People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.

Courtney Barnett

#22. That was the thing about the Goodnight world. No matter what the label said, you could never assume anything only worked like magic.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#23. The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

Mark Hyman

#24. I was never actually signed to the label; I was just the annoying rapper that was always around at the studio sessions.

JD Era

#25. Trace Corbin should come with a warning label: highly addictive.

Caisey Quinn

#26. maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I

Jon Ronson

#27. I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it.

David Byrne

#28. I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It's a feeling that you can't label with words.

Black Francis

#29. Survivor" is not a label you choose for yourself.

Harry Smith

#30. find it interesting that in history all one had to do to discredit a woman was label her a witch. How do we discredit a strong woman today?" The class stared back at Wilson, not understanding. And then it clicked. "You label her a bitch," I offered boldly. The

Amy Harmon

#31. The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.

Kailash Kher

#32. Smoking is extremely hazardous to you and those around you it said on the label. He glanced around. The few termites that might thrive down here could probably handle it.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

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

Nicolas Cage

#34. I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

Steve Vai

#35. Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

George Meany

#36. I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - personally, I wasn't ready to get out there. I don't know. It was a pop group. Not like the Spice Girls, but when you don't have any control over anything, it's disheartening.

Tika Sumpter

#37. The exciting thing about getting a label together and doing press for it is that hopefully some 15-year-old girl who is the only feminist in her junior-high class will hear about it and be like, "Oh, cool, I hadn't heard of that, I'm going to check it out."

Kathleen Hanna

#38. You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

Alan Light

#39. There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.

Imogen Heap

#40. 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

#41. A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.

John Christopher

#42. Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

Bill Gates

#43. Actually, he told me later that I had turned him gay . . . by taking codeine again. And I said, "You know, I never read that warning on the label." I thought it said heavy machinery, not homosexuality - turns out I could have been driving those tractors all along! Turning

Carrie Fisher

#44. You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.

Lupe Fiasco

#45. I've never been a fan of labels. I think its very easy to kind of look at somebody and just kind of throw a label on them 'They're crazy.'

Charlize Theron

#46. So what if you end up buying a size 6 instead of a 4? You can always cut out the label at home, and you'll pretty soon forget whatever that number was because you'll be too busy admiring how fantastic you look.

Victoria Beckham

#47. For Black Label Special Opps, adversity is what you thrive on. General Patton is a huge fan favorite in Black Label.

Zakk Wylde

#48. Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.

James Blunt

#49. Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.

Pat Brown

#50. I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

Jack White

#51. need this." Maureen jogged in place. "Eighteen kindergartners on a sugar high. Every teacher in America should have their salaries doubled and get a bouquet of roses every freaking week. And a bottle of Landon Whiskey's gold label." "I

Nora Roberts

#52. People lost the capacity of using their brain. It's all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the labels.

Barbara Hulanicki

#53. Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

Wiz Khalifa

#54. If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.

Steve Albini

#55. I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.

Alexander McQueen

#56. My label is to play bad guys of Latin origin in American movies. I'm happy with that label. I prefer to play that than to play a city boy. The bad guy is always something very tempting for the audience.

Jordi Molla

#57. There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

Kenneth Edmonds

#58. I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career, and I'm intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it'd be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.

Michael Gira

#59. Probably not true, but remember this: someone really did design the Titanic and then label it unsinkable. For

Stephen King

#60. My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

Arlen Specter

#61. I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

Gene Simmons

#62. I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.

Jonny Lang

#63. He went through the cupboards, found the olive oil, and started upstairs again. He glanced down at the green and gold label and had to bite back a laugh at the words Extra Virgin.
That about summed it up.

Josh Lanyon

#64. I'm a label that wants to sell. I believe in clothes.

Giambattista Valli

#65. Beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

Ellen Glasgow

#66. Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#67. I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

Paul Muni

#68. Probably the label 'Jesus freak' is fine with me. Because I know who I am.

Troy Polamalu

#69. 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.

Spencer Krug

#70. The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was about individualism and the opportunity to achieve success without interference from others.

Robert Ringer

#71. There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#72. If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.

Emma Watson

#73. One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

John Zorn

#74. When I label something as fiction, people say it's true, and when I label something as non-fiction, people say it is made up. If something is not 100% true, then I label it as fiction. After all, there is no half of a lie, is there?

Robert Black

#75. First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.

Wayne White

#76. 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

#77. 5. Your kids will be so grateful if you label and organize your photos now and if you stick a note on keepsakes explaining their significance. We settle a lot of estates, and it's frustrating to the next generation when they don't understand why something was left to them.

Anonymous

#78. When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.

Daniel Goleman

#79. 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

#80. Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

Dougray Scott

#81. 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

#82. I'm so ashamed of myself for wanting this. His brand of sex comes with a warning label. That should make me want to run in the opposite direction.

Belle Aurora

#83. To be certain you're consuming the real deal, look carefully at the label. W-h-i-s-k-e-y indicates the heavenly liquid from the Emerald Isle. Without the "e," it's from Scotland or some other godforsaken place.

Rashers Tierney

#84. The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls-no matter what their label-these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.

Max Brooks

#85. They didn't trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says 'A Fine Pilsner Beer' on the label. It is a crime.

Michael Jackson

#86. My label is largely about fabrics; print is definitely not my point of difference!

Roksanda Ilincic

#87. Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#88. Yep. His epic good looks without succumbing to the adorable label had made him a man-unicorn in my mind. Or a merman. Or a Loch Ness Monstman. He was a mystical creature.

Penny Reid

#89. I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

Dylan Bruce

#90. Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.

Lewis H. Lapham

#91. Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

Katherine Heigl

#92. I would also say you can never reduce any person to a diagnostic label.

Jon Ronson

#93. I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.

Evan Rachel Wood

#94. People who earn the label "creative" are really just people who
come up with more combinations of ideas, find interesting ones faster,
and are willing to try them out. The problem is that most schools
and organizations train us out of those habits.

Guy Kawasaki

#95. When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Beyonce Knowles

#96. Since all the Amish dress the same, our names were on a label inside the garments, and shawls

Ora Jay Eash

#97. if a parent loses a child, there was no special label for their grief. They were still just a mother or a father, even if they no longer had a son or daughter. That seemed odd.

M.L. Stedman

#98. If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

Aimee Mann

#99. If had to label myself, I guess classical liberal would be best.

David Harsanyi

#100. His brand of sex comes with a warning label.

Belle Aurora