Labels Quotes · Page 15

I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

— Michael Jackson

I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.

— Louise Wilson

“Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.”

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

— Ian MacKaye

“What if we all jumped out of our boxes and chewed up our stupid labels? Who would we discover?”

— Julie Buxbaum

Not everyone is the same. You can't label a person just because of what they do or what they've done.

— Common

National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, 'Wow, I want to be label mates with the…

— Bjork

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

— Joyce Cary

I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is…

— Emily Haines

Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context,…

— Sasa Stanisic

Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with…

— Joss Whedon

There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people…

— Miguel de Unamuno

I try not to assign labels to myself. Sometimes I shop in the plus section, and sometimes I don't. I feel we…

— Philomena Kwao

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…

— James Surowiecki

Dudes like me, where I'm from with my sound, don't get signed! It ain't like labels in and out of Detroit and…

— Tee Grizzley

I'm sure little Marco [Rubio] didn't think it would stick. I'm sure crooked Hillary [Clinton] didn't think it would stick. These labels…

— Mark Shields

My whole team, it wasn't about putting the album out, it was about getting off the record company and going independent or…

— Lupe Fiasco

Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It…

— Al Gini

It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity…

— Stephen Levine

Labels are going to tie you down with a 360 deal, they take percentages of literally every endeavor you're tied to. It's…

— Ashanti

I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about…

— William Gibson

There is no question that the US market is the hardest to break into. I believe that the reason for this primarily…

— Wendy Starland

I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able…

— Amanda Palmer

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my…

— Taylor Swift

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the…

— Ornette Coleman

As for the age of electronics, Selena, I really don't want to get personal with something that comes with a warning label…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

There were so many different labels coming to me and they just didn't seem right, but 300... they wanted me bad. It…

— Megan Thee Stallion

“That's just the first part. What others call you, you become. It's a terrible magic that everyone can do — so do…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.

— Chris Martin

Sometimes America is so great because it brings all of us together, but sometimes it can be so limiting because it puts…

— Lulu Wang

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

— Gloria Steinem

The thing that I did not like about being signed to a label was I unable to have control over what I…

— Jessica Sanchez

I'd like to work for as long as possible and form connections with the labels I work for.

— Arizona Muse

I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money…

— Heather Dubrow

There were a lot of labels in the '90s that were fashionable for a time and then crashed.

— Bonobo

Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.

— Annie Lennox

I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

— A-Trak

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

— Eckhart Tolle

The ability to help the people around me self-actualize their goals underlines the single aspect of my abilities and the label that…

— Bill Walsh

As soon as we stop trying to put boxes and labels to every relationship and dynamic, we'll be so much more liberated…

— Lucy Boynton