Top 696 Label Quotes

I’m the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.

I don’t want the ‘supersub’ label or anything like that. I just want to come on and express myself and play the best I can.

I get asked quite often if I’m an anarchist. If they want to put a label on me, that’s fine. What is most important to me is to live in a world that is not being murdered.

Even if it’s just the smallest thing, like what label I go by, I think to find the truth and express it with full confidence.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it’s part of their identity. For me personally, I’ve never really had a label for myself.

I said a racist word and I can fully understand why people would label me a racist.

I loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.

If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, ‘Let’s have the artist play just before Gaga.’ Now you’ve exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It’s similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit.

The career high would be putting out a Kids of Widney High CD on my label, Ipecac Recordings.

I’m from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

Elton John’s opinion turned the label’s opinion around, all in a day.

It’s just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it’s never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

It’s really tough – if you’re on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say.

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I’m gone.

We’re so humbled and lucky to be in a position where we’ve been a four-piece for over 15 years. We’re signed to a major label. We’re on our fourth record on a major label. We’ve won a Grammy. We’ve toured the world.

When I was with Geffen Records, I weighed almost 400 pounds. The label told me that I had a great voice but wasn’t marketable having a weight image.

Prior to ‘Action’ and ‘Justice League 1,’ there was no label ‘superhero’ for a superpowered being. It’s really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they’ve agreed to be our champions.

It’s always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they’re going to label it.

It’s fun seeing my label on someone’s behind – I like that.

There’s a Nina Simone record that I love, ‘Live at Vine Street,’ and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might’ve told the record label, ‘Oh, God, you’re not releasing that!’ But I’m glad they did.

I used to regard genres as being embedded in cliches, and I always felt funny about the need we have to label things. But I’m happy to think of ‘Starred Up’ as a prison drama, although we tried to smuggle in some elements of family drama in there.

As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don’t. I don’t think the label I’m on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they’re gonna have to.

Dream projects are always a funny thing to label. I guess just more exciting scripts in my inbox. Maybe an exciting script about John Lennon.

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.

It was not easy to get rid of that ‘tv actor’ label.

My biggest failure was trying to start and run a music label. The music industry was dying, and I wasn’t ready to help other people the way that they needed to be helped. I was trying to, and I was stifling myself with it.

I have never gotten into the label thing.

I started my own record label.

Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he’s a good friend.

I’ve always been a fan of Nigerian artist D’banj. He’s now signed to Kanye West’s Good Music label.

Shoot, there’s a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We’ve all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they’re spit out by the machine, we don’t even recognize them.

I had basically been shelved by the record label for two years and I was writing songs every day. I made two albums that just never came out, and that was just a really big knock to my confidence, because everything I sent seemed like it just wasn’t good enough.

In the early 1990s, I was signed as a singer to the same label as Robyn. She was in her early teens, and I was in my twenties, so we didn’t hang out, but our paths crossed so many times that we slowly got to know each other and became friends.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label ‘inspiration’.

Everybody has always put this on me, this label, that I’m not a very good defensive catcher. To me, I don’t see it that way.

You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn’t able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.

It bothers me when people say ‘shock comic’ or ‘gross-out’ because that was only one type of comedy I did. There was prank comedy. Man-on-the-street-reaction comedy. Visually surreal comedy. But you do something shocking, and that becomes your label.

One of the most harmful things in the music industry is ‘record-by-committee,’ where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one’s a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.

10 Summers isn’t just a label, it’s a lifestyle.

One overlooked great 1980s rock n’ roll band, maybe punk rock – they were on SST Records, same label as Black Flag – is this band called the Leaving Trains.

I don’t think that one thing defines me, but I know that by coming out the way that I did, sort of almost pioneering it in action sports – to take that stand – that it’s always going to be a label that is stuck with me, and I know that I’ll always be the ‘gay skier,’ and it actually doesn’t bother me.

Def Jam is an iconic label.

Well, we were originally called Huey Lewis and the American Express. But on the eve of the release of our first record, our record label, Chrysalis Records was afraid that we’d be sued by American Express.

I didn’t start my label out of a business perspective. I did it because I wanted to create a platform where new musicians can have the chance to get into a studio, work with each other, and get their music noticed by a large audience.

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

If a new artist comes, and he doesn’t have a good record label to invest in him, then there is no point.

I don’t like to use the words ‘real women,’ honestly. I like to use the word ‘woman.’ And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman, it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people.

With the Beatles, we’d been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together.

If you bleed Black Label and you’re going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me – I have a wariness about trying for a hit.

I met a lot of label people at the start of doing this music thing, and I just realised soon that it wasn’t much about music but more so about their paycheck at the end of the day.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we’re fine with it.