Labels Quotes · Page 20

Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired.

— Frank Schaeffer

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is…

— James Welch

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

— Matthea Harvey

Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.

— Jim Lee

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should…

— Donald A. Norman

Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becoming indie labels, anyway.

— Vic Fuentes

People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.

— Harry Dean Stanton

'Classic rock' is never a label that we've given ourselves - it's one of the many labels that's been imposed on us.

— Ian Gillan

The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects…

— Guy Oseary

I wanted to stay independent because I figured there was no way I was going to be able to have control to…

— Lil Nas X

This is tremendous. The labels have been saying all along that they can't compete with free, but there is a way to…

— Jonathan Potter

California's Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that -…

— Michael Pollan

The Christians committed all sorts of atrocities on the Jews by giving them the label "Killers of Christ". Hitler is not an…

— M. S. Golwalkar

Don't let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that's not how…

— Mitch Albom

Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label.…

— Robin Pecknold

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous.…

— Masashi Kishimoto

A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12…

— Taylor Swift

What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected…

— Thomas Sowell

I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or…

— Karin Tidbeck

I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in…

— Richard Dawkins

What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's…

— Irvin D. Yalom

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That…

— William Gibson

“No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which…

— Edward W. Said

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

— Eric Lewis

I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and…

— Stephen Jay Gould

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

— Bonnie Raitt

Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal.

— Francoise Mouly

My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.

— Wendell Berry

The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people…

— Shailene Woodley

Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to…

— Kelly Wearstler

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

— Annie Besant

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

— Betty Wright

For the most part, it's straight white men running these labels and publishing companies.

— Justin Tranter

“I hate school... It's a place with: - Labels - Ranks - High Status - Low Status (PEOPLE)”

— Deyth Banger

“We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through…

— Nick Webb

Personally, I resent being tagged ‘glamour girl.’ It’s such an absurd, extravagant label. It implies so much that I’m not.

— Carole Lombard

I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.

— E-40

Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.

— Peter Steele

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

— JD Era