Labels Quotes
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer. I'm a writer who's been strongly influenced by European precedents. I'm a writer who feels very close to literary practice in India - which I go to quite often - and to writers over there.
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I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.
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As a rock fan, you read of the big labels and the multinationals and the big tours with road crews and semi-trailers full of gear, and playing stadiums. In the '90s, that's what we did.
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Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.
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I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?
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I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.
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When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.
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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 you and that's it.
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The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
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We put the labels we choose on things [...], and for our own purposes. That is the long and the short of it.
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He had realized that the labels he had been taking so seriously are human inventions--it's all a game. The Number 68 is invented and the A is invented, so we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us.
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I've been called a "baby killer" and I've been told I should die and that I'm ruining women's lives. Those accusations hurt for sure - and I pause when such labels are applied to me - but because they come from people I don't necessarily respect, I have an easier time moving beyond them.
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I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.
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What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
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Probably the label 'Jesus freak' is fine with me. Because I know who I am.
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Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.
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If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.
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I'm, like, not overly into labels. I've been referred to that way, but I tend to think of political cartoonists as constantly at it, producing more work than I do. I do, what, six or eight covers a year, maybe, and a bunch of illustrations as well, but how many do you create a year? I'm in awe of that, and I think the term implies being at it every day or at least weekly.
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I think staying away from labels is what makes my films refreshing.
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We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.
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Getting signed shouldn't be the point. I made that mistake early on and I think a lot of people do. It's not something you should rush into. I think I'm actually lucky that when I went to visit labels when I was 20 years old and played and they thought I wasn't ready, it was probably a good thing because I wasn't ready. I didn't know what I was getting intoat the time. I mean, you never know exactly what you're getting into. There's a lot of stuff that's going on right now that's new to me but there's also a lot that I'm lucky to know how to handle.
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I'm really excited about breaking new acts. While I'm trying to preserve the culture and make sure I fight for the acts that the major labels have thrown away, you can't throw away Musiq Soulchild, Kelly Price and Jon B.
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I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.
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I have to be honest with you, I feel sorry for new musicians, I admire them no end, as they have the same desire that I had as a kid growing up, wanting to be a musician. The big problem now is that the major labels aren’t signing any new bands, there was a time when independent labels were doing it, but a lot of them don’t exist anymore.
