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Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we had some…

— Christian Burns

That's why I made my record before I had a label. I put it out independently - in a way, out of fear -…

— Aubrie Sellers

I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out,…

— Eminem

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

— Ice T

I've never been told to do anything. I've never been hurried along by anybody - the kind of so-called 'pressure' of record labels doesn't…

— Amy Macdonald

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't…

— Matthew Sweet

I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out.

— Trent Reznor

It's the worst feeling, going into your record label when you haven't got a hit. It was like: 'Maybe you've lost it.' And, once…

— Jonas Blue

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

— Neil Young

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what…

— John Scofield

It's a pretty great thing to have a record that at the end of the day you're not totally sick of and you're actually…

— Wesley Schultz

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music…

— Bill Frisell