Glorified Quote by Toby Keith

Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it.

— Tom Silverman

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

Can a label group by itself scale to make a sensible business? I don't think so.

— Scott Borchetta

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

— Bill Bailey

I wanted a label that reflects the times... a center for artists who want to express themselves. That's what makes Interscope unique. It's about…

— Jimmy Iovine

It's not like our own label. We don't need our own label no more. It's bigger than that, you know I sayin'? It's so…

— Mobb Deep

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

— Win Butler

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

— David Levithan

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.

— Riz Ahmed

Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.

— Leo Buscaglia

The worst part is that if you become part of a major - all these independent labels become farm teams for your corporate parent.…

— El-P

We laid the foundation before we went to a major label.

— Quavo