When you label so much of what happens to you as ‘bad,’ it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And – this is key – labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you’ll experience it as such.
Another Black Label motto. That’s what I think life is. It’s just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.
If we meet some people that are in love with NFG that are a major label, then we’ll sign with them. If we meet people that are in love with NFG that are an independent label – and they have a plan – well, then we’ll sign to them. It’s completely up to us.
Through a voluntary national certification program, SAFLA will create uniform rules and definitions for foods carrying a GMO-free label, allowing consumers to understand and identify those products that fit their food preferences.
If you think back to the beginning of the label, we knew we had to strike quickly and aggressively and go for the brass ring.
I’ve worked in the studio with a lot of young girls, and they’ll go, ‘Oh, the label is telling me to take off my clothes, and I don’t feel comfortable.’ Well if you don’t feel comfortable, don’t do it.
The big thing is I’m not with a major label. I’ve been independent since the get-go, and I’ve been very lucky to get some good advice on keeping hold of copyright and that kind of stuff.
I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I’m not really attached to a label.
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.
It’s silly to throw things out or label things. You know, is U2 a Christian band, or was Johnny Cash a Christian country singer? I don’t know, but they’re pretty open about their faith.
I wanted to have a label to not only release my own stuff but to also give young talent a chance to release their music without signing away their life. I had a great time with Spinnin’, and the people I worked with were amazing, but the contract wasn’t really for me. It wasn’t what I wanted.
Island Records was the first record label to… acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me.
I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I’m just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.
We believe that the Internet is the live concert promoters best friend although it might have crippled the record label business.
Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.
Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I’m independent. I’m very happy with that.
I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.
Why does everyone need to have a label?
When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.
The business of a label is to make money – my business is to make music. I’m gonna get paid if I do it right.
I’m not only a DJ. I run my own record label and I work out of my own productions.
Every single thing that I was told that I couldn’t do without a label – get in the charts, get on to the Radio 1 playlist – I’ve done.
Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I’m not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.
I was working with another major label after Warner Bros, and they were telling me who to hire as musicians, what kind of music to play, what producer to use. I mean, what’s the point of putting me on the record?
I’m not in the slightest wanting to attack the women’s movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women – and embedded assumptions about them – as misogyny and think ‘job done.’
In picking Gen. Jim Mattis for Defense secretary, President-elect Donald Trump has said that he found his ‘Gen. George Patton.’ Yet that label may not really capture what makes Mattis a distinctive choice.
Getting a Grammy nomination for ‘Brooklyn’ meant a lot, especially because, as an album, it was one that was very personal to me but also one that I self-produced and had gone outside the label.
When I was shopping around trying to get signed, I made it a point to say, ‘This is who I am.’ I dress the way I normally dress, and I just wanted to find a label that would accept me for that.
I’ve always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.
I couldn’t put any kind of label on my production aesthetic.
Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks – if not two months – before it comes out. There’s no real way around that.
Money affects everything, from who I’m with to what label I’m on, so everything I do now is about protecting it. But I didn’t understand how powerfully that would affect my home life.
I think anyone who’s willing to be brutally honest with who they are and express themselves is always going to get the oddball label, the pyscho label, the twisted label. That’s what happens.
I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‘Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.’
I was always doing an independent kind of move while I was still with a label. They just stamped it.
I always wanted to be a part of a New York-based label, so I’ve worked really hard to try and network with people that I felt would put me in the right place.
For the label to grow, it has to have great executives who understand the culture, understand the mission, and can lead. I don’t want to be part of every decision.
You just can’t label one player as an MVP. There are nine guys on the field.
Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
The way Aventura became successful was so weird. We didn’t have a major label. They say everything has a reason, but it’s not easy to find. The only thing that was right was the music.
A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
Commercial success still hasn’t come to an artist that isn’t signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it’s still necessary.
The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.
The hardest thing is that the people who don’t know anything about fighting, they label you. Once they get to know me, they’re like, ‘Ah, you’re not anything like I thought.’ That’s probably the hardest thing about being a fighter – everything else is easy.
You can’t control it once you turn it into the label, so there’s the expectation that it’ll leak a week before the album comes out. That’s the world we live in.
It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities ‘job killers.’
Because I was fast, technical, and could dribble well, it was always the easy thing to label me just a winger and have me stick to that.
When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, ‘This ain’t going to last,’ so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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.
People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.
I have friends that are reps and run labels, but I don’t like to get into that world. I just like to pick what I like with my ears and play it for no other reason, not because of the label or the rep.
Manny Smith & Interscope CEO John Janick understand me and my vision for myself and also my label. Interscope gave me the opportunity to take over the game completely, and that’s what I’m going to do.
Observe yourself as you go through a typical day. Stuff happens to you. As it does, you immediately judge it and label it. Dozens of times. Hundreds of times. So often that you no longer recognize that you’re doing it. It is a deep-seated habit.
