Labels Quotes · Page 25

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

— Studs Terkel

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it…

— Lynn Hershman Leeson

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith…

— Ledisi

I'm socially conservative in some things. I don't know a label that fits, honestly.

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

— Robert Bloch

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

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

— Anonymous

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

— Julie Buxbaum

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they…

— Matthew Sweet

I tell you why I like Chanel so much: when I started off, no one wanted to give me clothes to wear.…

— Freida Pinto

Labels and classifications of any type are not law, nor are they written in stone. It's up to us to be aware…

— Clemantine Wamariya

The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label…

— Sasa Stanisic

Everybody uses labels: they give you a handle on things - an over-simplified handle, sure, but without labels, without ads, without words,…

— Vito Acconci

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built…

— Catherine Tate

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you…

— Dick Cavett

One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany'…

— Evan Davis

The fastest I ever did that was when Kill the Moonlight came out after Girls Can Tell, and I remember both labels…

— John Britt Daniel

Your reaction to a situation determines whether it will be positive or negative. If you're determined to label a situation positive, no…

— Rhonda Byrne

This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we've only just now been born, let's not fill our mouths with…

— Pablo Neruda

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child?…

— Jodi Picoult

I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed…

— Deepa Mehta

I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways, it's different. At Motown, a lot of the…

— Sharon Jones

I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (which used to mean “bright” and “retarded”)…

— Daniel Keyes

“You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no medical degree…

— Shannon L. Alder

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

— Ian MacKaye

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

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

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

— Louise Wilson

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

“We don’t have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourselves.”

— Lizzie Velásquez

I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.

— Jessica Simpson

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

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

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

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

— Joyce Cary

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

— Bjork

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

— Common