Top 199 Labels Quotes

I met Ne-Yo in London. I sang for him and he said, ‘I want to sign you.’ It was amazing – it meant my name was buzzing around the industry and I got to meet lots of different labels.

Labels are irrelevant. It’s the results.

Major labels don’t play with samples not being cleared.

It all started with social media, building a fan base via Tumblr and YouTube, doing covers, and releasing a project with original music. Labels started to peel interest then. It was around the same time I was applying for college.

I help with everything. My wife and I are a team. I pack my son’s lunches, and she takes him to baseball practice when I gotta go train. It’s hand-in-hand. There are no labels on our chores.

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

I don’t understand labels. I don’t need anybody to tell me I’m Latina or black or anything else. I’ve played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

It’s hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can and can’t do. It boils down to personal responsibility. People need to read labels, do their research and act accordingly.

I started to read labels around age 18 or 19. I don’t buy things that don’t sound like food, and I’ve been that way all my life. I do go through phases, during which I eat meat for maybe three months then don’t. I do eat lots of vegetables. It’s the same with dairy – I’ll eat it then stop.

I hate genres. I think they’re just marketing labels.

You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it’s important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.

Doing the eco-accessory thing doesn’t have to mean giving up designer labels. In fact, quite the opposite.

After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can’t look to labels to try to figure it out because they don’t even use the technology, and they’re oblivious to how people consume music these days.

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

Labels make us feel worse about ourselves, and I would love for all models, no matter what their size, to be treated equally and called the same thing.

I don’t like labels. For me, saying I’m transgender was just a thing to say because it’s what people want to label me as – a female, who’s a male.

I’m a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don’t want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

I identify as queer. I just don’t know what any of these labels mean.

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don’t really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown – it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.

I don’t really care that much about genre labels. I tend to write across a variety of different genres.

There were a lot of labels in the ’90s that were fashionable for a time and then crashed.

I’ve never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

It’s crazy how Tech N9ne was back home in L.A. He knew about my situation, what I was doing, trying to find other labels. He used to always call. ‘Let me know what’s up, man. We got room for you over here.’ We appreciated it.

I’m always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.

‘Classic rock’ is never a label that we’ve given ourselves – it’s one of the many labels that’s been imposed on us.

It’s weird to get gifted things as an actress because it usually happens when you’ve made a movie, and you can finally afford something, and then these fashion labels give it to you for free.

I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you’re an artist.

All these labels and praises scare me. I am very simple, and I feel like a newcomer because I never stopped learning.

The first record I made when I was 17. Labels merged and plans didn’t work out, but plans never work out as planned. But I never stopped making music. I never had a backup plan. I never thought, ‘Maybe I should just write, or maybe I should…’ I just kept going.

We came up with all these crazy ideas that Taylor Swift could be the biggest artist in the world – and it came true – and that we could have five labels and become the biggest independent record company in the world – and it came true.

I’m not that interested in labels or litmus tests.

You always hear ‘black Republican,’ but you never hear ‘white Democrat.’ We’ve got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don’t.

When you come off ‘The X Factor,’ you’re more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There’s this kind of feeling that you’re separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.

Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.

You’re not a combination of all your labels. You just are.

We need to get away from labels. That’s the way people talk in Washington, D.C. – through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.

I’m recording another demo for another batch of record labels that we’ll shop it around to.

I’m tired of labels. This is my label right here: El Cucuy.

My dad never liked labels, and neither do I.

You know, the European record labels always say, ‘We want 12 songs and then we want bonus songs,’ and you’re going, ‘What for? Why?’ That’s not a record.

It’s a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.

I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it’s people or categories of music. I think everyone should be what they want to be, and you shouldn’t have to look a certain way in order to fit this mold or that mold.

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of ‘civility’ in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for ‘no labels,’ class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

All my records were dance-oriented, and all the hassle with major labels about changing my records, release dates, videos – everything was out of my hands. I always had to deal with somebody else, and I had a different perspective on a lot of things.

Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered.

I had seen other comic friends of mine go to indie labels. Like David Cross and Pat Oswald went to Subpop, and Subpop didn’t make total sense for me, but the metal version of that did. So I made a small list with Metal Blade, Prosthetic and couple of other labels, and Relapse was one of them.

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

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we’re very sure.

All labels are offensive in some way.

I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, ‘Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we’ll talk.’

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It’s gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through.

It used to be that labels would spend two or three or four albums developing a new artist before they threw in the towel and moved on, which kind of gave the artist an opportunity to grow.

I like being signed because you have the support system. It’s all about the growth and labels give you that support you need.

I’m a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn’t worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it’s difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting – I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

I try not to assign labels to myself. Sometimes I shop in the plus section, and sometimes I don’t. I feel we attach too much significance to labels, and ultimately, it doesn’t really matter.

I never want to promote an ad that makes women feel bad about themselves, because when I was young, I never felt rich enough or fashionable enough or good enough. I felt talked down to by luxury fashion labels. There was a disconnect. They made me feel we weren’t right for each other.