Austin Quote by Charles de Lint

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

— Walter Jon Williams

I don't really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.

— Ken Liu

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.

— SZA

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 hate genres. I think they're just marketing labels.

— Rhiannon Giddens

Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires…

— Greg Ginn

I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or categories of music. I think everyone should…

— Lindsey Stirling

My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether…

— Trent Reznor

As a new artist there are so many new ways to put music out there where you don't necessarily need a label because now…

— Ashanti

I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

— Chino Moreno

Labels are curators of taste, and the best ones know how to monetize what an artist is trying to do.

— El-P

Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements…

— Kristin Hannah