Labels Quotes · Page 10

Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion…

— Garth Fagan

For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with…

— Jack White

It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.

— Nina Gordon

[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of…

— Emily Barton

People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the bands existence. They treated our gigs…

— Greg Ginn

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

— Joyce Cary

My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with…

— Mario Batali

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on…

— Alan Arkin

And the next album I do is going to be different because I'm going to change. I already did that thing where…

— Laura Bell Bundy

I think Def Jam happened to be one of the labels that really didn't have a good grip on things that were…

— Joe Budden

They think that I was like Amy Grant, when actually no! The label went bankrupt and maybe sold a couple hundred records…

— Katy Perry

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

— John C. Maxwell

I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have…

— Karl Malone

Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control,…

— Laura Jane Grace

Sometimes those labels that the league puts on players aren't right.

— Mike D'Antoni

Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can…

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr

When you begin to suggest that dissent, opposition, resistance, the only way to deal with it is not to listen to it…

— Henry Giroux

I think that women are often lumped into categories - single gals, or soccer moms, or career women, or women of a…

— Elizabeth Heyert

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

— Rivers Cuomo

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

— Donnis

For those unaware, transitioning from a relaxed to a natural texture means also transitioning from conventional to fringe society. Abandoning straight hair…

— Jerrika Hinton

You gotta step up your bars! Look, I run two labels. I sing. I dance. I don't spend all my time rapping.

— Jay Park

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

— Phyllis McGinley

Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American…

— Teju Cole

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon