Art Quote by Ornette Coleman

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

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are…

— Siouxsie Sioux

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label…

— Geoffrey Holder

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

— El-P

It's a great place to be as an artist: if you confuse your label, you're doing your job.

— Kristian Bush

... humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.

— Shannen Doherty

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

— Shailene Woodley

I think that it is mad that everything always has to have a label - whether it be the clothes by designers, or whether…

— A. J. Pritchard

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

— Eddie Huang

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.

— Dizzee Rascal

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

— Adam Jones