Your Label Quotes

#1. I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.

Renzo Piano

#2. What I've learned is not to take anybody's advice. If you rely solely on your fans, it sets you up for the downfall
on the industry side and if you rely on what your label is saying, it will disconnect you from your fans.

Lupe Fiasco

#3. I want a refund. I just drank three litres of your balsamic vinegar and now I feel dreadful. Why does your label not say 'DO NOT DRINK THREE LITRES OF THIS'?

Trevor Mcinsley

#4. For me, I wanted somebody that got me musically, that understood that I'm an artist and this is who I am. I'm not going to be like another artist on your label, probably - hopefully. I found all those things with the Broken Bow group.

Joe Nichols

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

Patti Smith

#6. Bravery and Stupidity are the same thing, the outcome determines your label.

Hayden Sixx

#7. When you're struggling to survive, no one gets to label you a coward, not even you yourself in your private thoughts.

Sara Paretsky

#8. Each time you walk down the aisle of your Home Depot or Walgreens, try to remember that behind every label and package is someone's heart and soul, and that efforts in man-years or decades are behind each product.

Clifford Spiro

#9. There are people that damage you for life. The day they walked into your life will forever be a turning point you will use to label and count your years with... Your own BC and AD.

Malak El Halabi

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

Elton John

#11. People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#12. And you are more than the mistakes of your youth. You are more than the label you've been assigned by people who might love you, but don't really know who you are anymore.

Penny Reid

#13. Create your own individual style. I'm not interested in the girl who walks into my office in a HEAD-to-TOE LABEL look that's straight off the runway. I'm interested in a Girl who puts herself together in an ORIGINAL INDEPENDENT Way

Anna Wintour

#14. But they're being labeled bipolar. That's an enormous label that's going to stay with you for the rest of your life.

Jon Ronson

#15. I'm very content to have great management and a great label. But for me, success started when my managers came to me and told me, 'Go ahead and quit your job.' I told them, 'As long as I don't have to wash dishes anymore, I'm good.'

Leon Bridges

#16. I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.
Nothing to brag on,
but enough for you, and all your friends, too.

Catherynne M Valente

#17. Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.

Barbara Corcoran

#18. I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.

A-Trak

#19. You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

James Vincent McMorrow

#20. If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or MSG, you simply read the ingredients listed on the label.

Bernie Sanders

#21. Honor your challenges, for those spaces that you label as dark are actually there to bring you more light, to strengthen you, to firm your resolve, and to bring out the best in you.

Sanaya Roman

#22. C. So, hunny, don't waste your time trying to label or define me ... 'cause I'm not what I was ten years ago or ten minutes ago. I'm all of that and then some. And whereas I can't live inside yesterday's pain, I can't live without it.

George C. Wolfe

#23. If you accept a label, then you become it. So if someone wants to label you in a way that limits and controls your life, then why would you ever accept it?

Peter Baksa

#24. Being a musician, especially at the major label where you work for so long, it becomes a cycle. Write a record, make a record, tour. It's just this cycle, and I don't think there's any life built into it with time to assimilate what's going on in front of you and what's going on in your head.

Art Alexakis

#25. Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your feeling so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been mistake to label this "love". It was more like total empathy.

Haruki Murakami

#26. I've tried many different types of alarm apps, but the tried and true is the iPhone alarm. I like it because you can label your alarms. For my personal amusement, I've labeled them 3 a.m. for 'ridiculously early,' 3:30 is just 'early,' and 4 is 'slacker.'

Savannah Guthrie

#27. When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.

Andy Taylor

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. The fact of the matter is, if you're not putting out stuff that people are feeling, then your record label doesn't mean a goddamn thing.

El-P

#31. It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label ... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

Kurt Cobain

#32. As a new artist there are so many new ways to put music out there where you don't necessarily need a label because now labels will have their hands in your pocket and leave you with less control.

Ashanti

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

Deepak Chopra

#34. The beauty of running your own label and your own show is that you are in charge. I get sent a huge amount of musicfrom new and established talent every day, so if I like a track, I play it - no questions asked.

Nicky Romero

#35. I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do.

Henry Rollins

#36. You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.

Sarah Hall

#37. Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence.

Marilyn Manson

#38. Musically, between me and my fans and also me and my team, who between management and record label have always just let me be me, it's fun to pave a path. It's fun to feel like you're doing things your own way. So in that regard I haven't had to worry about any bar but my own.

Josh Groban

#39. 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

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

Kailash Kher

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. Table the label and wear your own name.

Mr. T

#45. Keep your eyes peeled: Honor's the label to watch. It's quickly becoming a serious celebrity favorite - just ask fans Kirsten Dunst and Kelly Osbourne.

Brad Goreski

#46. We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.

A-Trak

#47. 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.

Richard Peck

#48. I feel that if you can transcend the color of your skin, with your talent, why carry that as a badge or a label?

Giancarlo Esposito

#49. If you don't like how others define & label you, then work on your values. Embrace and practice values that you would like to be associated.

Assegid Habtewold

#50. Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

Matthew Sweet

#51. When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

Tommy Shaw

#52. The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic
and took only two words to label: Shit. Happens.
But the thing was, you kept going. You kept your friends and your
family and your mate as safe as you were able. And you kept fighting even
after you were knocked down.

J.R. Ward

#53. Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.

James Surowiecki

#54. The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single ... and tell you, it's not gonna sell ... that's what the label does.

Ray Lamontagne

#55. The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.

Martha Beck

#56. I don't believe any of you suffer as I do," cried Amy, "for you don't have to go to school with impertinent girls, who plague you if you don't know your lessons, and laugh at your dresses, and label your father if he isn't rich, and insult you when your nose isn't nice.

Louisa May Alcott

#57. You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

Sean Parker

#58. Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company.

Scarlett Johansson

#59. I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

Karl Malone

#60. Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

Thomas J. Watson Jr.

#61. If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.

Padma Lakshmi

#62. 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.

Mark McGrath

#63. Major labels act as banks in terms of how they produce and release your album. No major label is really good or bad; they just 100 per cent operate as a business, which makes sense ... no hard feelings.

Solange Knowles

#64. Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

Mark Twain

#65. Make an effort to remove all labels that you've placed on yourself. Labels serve to negate you. You must ultimately live up to the label rather than being the limitless spirit that is your true essence.

Wayne W. Dyer

#66. 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

#67. I've gotten to the point where the label of 'best friend' is so ridiculous. If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.

Selena Gomez

#68. If somebody wants you to pin a label on my place in your life, just tell them I'm yours. It's that simple.

Shannon Stacey