Art Quote by Patti Smith

There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves.

— Mannie Fresh

I've seen a lot of artists fall out with their labels and be irrelevant when they come back.

— Scarface

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

— El-P

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

— Anonymous

We as label executives, we have to know the limitations of the artists.

— Mathew Knowles

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be…

— Criss Jami

I don't like labels. I have always fought against that as a stand-up.

— Bill Bailey

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.

— Kim Wilde

I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art…

— Malcolm Wilson

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

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don't.

— Freddie Gibbs