Label Quotes

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.

We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major label.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

I just have so much love for my record label.

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

I'd rather be on a label that understands us and allows us to be a bit odd.

I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

I'm really happy with Elektra, I don't have anything bad to say about them at all. I always knew a major label was the right place for me to be. I never really had an opportunity to go to an independent label anyway.

Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

It's an album that is a little bit different and probably isn't easy to get out. It's not likely that a major label would have picked it up and said that they had a smash hit record.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.