Beginning Quote by Brad Mondo

I think people think that labels can get you features more than you can get your own. I just doesn't work like that.

— Kid Ink

Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.

— Ashley Thomas

For us, being a label, we took out the whole aspect of the business that goes into sifting through people who don't care, who…

— Zac Hanson

I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for…

— Ricky Van Veen

I've put projects out on my own label twice now and been very successful which shows you don't need a major label to back…

— Bugzy Malone

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so…

— Ian MacKaye

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

— Adam Jones

Everything from the logo to the products and different looks that you see, has been put together with so much detail. There is no…

— Sussanne Khan

Obviously I've got to work hard to have my own label, but it all benefits me in a different kind of way. I can…

— Lady Sovereign

I got fed up with the idea of partnering with labels on a major scale because of how they have to deliver things. They…

— The-Dream

I feel like it's important for me to expand, to create my own label. With a label, I can just give someone the opportunity…

— Playboi Carti

Doing the eco-accessory thing doesn't have to mean giving up designer labels. In fact, quite the opposite.

— Sheherazade Goldsmith