Labels Quotes · Page 13

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means…

— Mat McNerney

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

— Warren Buffett

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just…

— Mark McGrath

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone…

— James Vincent McMorrow

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

— Macklemore

We found the time and we put in the effort because being a label that different women can wear is really important…

— Christian Siriano

“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that…

— Frederick Lenz

Increasing numbers of Pagans are identifying themselves as animists or naming their worldview as animism. Some Pagans use the term animism to…

— Graham Harvey

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and…

— Janet Fitch

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on…

— Alan Parsons

I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and…

— Thom Yorke

Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they…

— Joan Aiken

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing…

— John Varvatos

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who…

— Steven Morrissey

Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some…

— Thomas Merton

A label is a soul-tattoo that is ingrained deep in our hearts, so much so that it determines how we see ourselves,…

— Derwin L. Gray

There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting…

— Amanda Palmer

I can't be a part of the problem. I hate the idea of a label just as much as anyone else but…

— Amber Heard

The people at the label were great but at the end of the day our visions didn't match up and I knew…

— Kina Grannis

Yeah. When I was 14, my Dad had a radio show with really cool people from Ghent, our hometown, in it. The…

— Stephen Dewaele

As the most romantic day of the year approaches, and as a brand that is uniquely male, we wanted to find out…

— Christopher Parsons

I got a chance to get an actual label. I performed this slow song, this ballad I have. I just remember going…

— Chris Brown

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

— Robert Morgan

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

— Daniel Ek

For quite a while I called myself a workaholic. I was proud of that label. Then one day it hit me; a…

— Mike Michalowicz

I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate…

— Lasse Hallstrom

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

— Franz Kafka

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

— Audre Lorde

We have incredible record labels in Australia, but sometimes they have a preconceived idea of how to do things.

— Jessica Mauboy

One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for…

— Chance The Rapper

I didn't expect major labels would embrace MySpace, and the original idea for music on the site was the unsigned bands, the…

— Tom Anderson

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

— Dylan McDermott

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Caroline Polachek

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“School is all about this labels... ranks... high status that if you are no-one you ain't gonna get anywhere.”

— Deyth Banger

When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.

— Anonymous