Label Quotes
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I'm signed to a U.S. label, and I didn't enjoy the 3 A.M. phone calls. I'm not a great sleeper, so I didn't enjoy being woken up.
Estelle
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I'm not with a label, so I haven't ever felt pressure to be a certain way. I've got a cool team who just love music.
Jorja Smith
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I think if you're an artist my advice to you is really stick to your guns and don't make records for anyone else. If you sign to a record label they always want to change you and you don't really need in a label that much anymore unless you're a real Pop band where they have to spend a lot of money on you.
Paul Hardcastle
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I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.
Estelle
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When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.
Tommy Shaw
Styx
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Our first single wasn't put out by any big-name record company. We had been playing in clubs for a while and we wanted to put out an EP. None of the record companies would have us. They told us that our type of rock and roll wasn't happening. We decided to show 'em they were wrong, so we recorded the stuff on our own and put it out on our own private label, Bludgeon Riffola Records. When it started to sell a lot of copies, the record companies 'suddenly' discovered us. It was strange, but we felt vindicated.
Steve Clark
Def Leppard
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We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.
Logan Browning
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Everything is illusory. You cannot label something and feel that that is the beginning, middle, and end of it.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
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When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth.
Amanda Knox
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Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.
Lewis H. Lapham
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You can be more creative when you're not feeling like a slave. When you're on a record label, they have you like that.
Nate Dogg
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When you’re signed to a big label and they’re giving money for you to do things, you can’t do whatever you want. Like, I wouldn’t be able to make a totally indie punk record. You need to find the balance.
Alma