When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn’t understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.
Major labels didn’t start showing up really until they smelled money, and that’s all they’re ever going to be attracted to is money-that’s the business they’re in- making money.
It’s a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don’t have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.
I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40 percent of your local artists; don’t suck up to major labels to the point where you neglect your own locale.
Labels don’t mean anything to me. I’m trying to play as passionately as I’m able to. If they want to call that cool, that’s fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.
Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you’re providing delicious food with cleaner labels.
It’s all about communication and a dialogue between individuals – get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self.
I’ve always ignored the labels people put on things.
For ‘Kabir Singh,’ an entirely original album had to be done and that’s how music should be made, but unfortunately that does not happen as the labels and the producers are more interested in fast food music.
I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they’re going to hear, or won’t come for this reason.
It harms me when people say I am ‘non-mainstream’ or ‘non-commercial’ actor. I try to fight off such labels.
When I finished Westlife, we had – Louie Walsh is still managing me – I was lucky to have options from different labels such as Sony and Universal. When we met Capitol and Nick Raphael, I just believed in them the most, and it looked like they believed in me the most.
If people have to put labels on me, I’d prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.
If there’s any profit to be had in Nashville-Underground, it’s very long term. We’re not about money, which gives us an edge over the labels.
There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I’m not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels.
In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else’s space.
Worldwide is an overused word. But it’s true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.
I dislike labels like ‘commercial’ and ‘non commercial.’
From doing Power Station, it was like, it’s the same guys, but it doesn’t sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.
This idea of walls, segregation, labels, and ‘You against us’ and ‘We are superior and you are inferior.’ Which people are legitimate? Which relationships are legitimate or not? Who declares that under which authority? These are things that are hugely important.
One client’s wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband’s prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted ‘What’s that wine?’ dinner parties.
I feel like when you call us drag queens, it stereotypes us. It puts us as labels and I feel like we are performers.
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels’ understanding of digital technology.
Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there’s one I don’t dislike. I get called the ‘enfant terrible.’ In every article, it’s always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
I’m a Hollywood pinhead; I don’t know about political labels.
So many bands have the same performance-based videos, and it’s so lame. I know bands whose labels rent a crowd, so they have these fake audiences that jump up and down trying to make it look like a pit or something.
Labels are limiting, and I don’t like them.
I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest… nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard, and the drive and passion to win!
The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.
There’s a lot of one-hit wonders and a lot of come-and-go artists and even the labels give up on you after a couple years.
When our video of ‘Smooth Criminal’ came out, suddenly we started getting all kinds of offers. We were getting calls from TV shows like ‘Ellen DeGeneres’ and from record labels.
Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
