My label, my team and I are always looking to get involved with positive things.
I don’t think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.
I had heard all the rumors and controversy swirling about the ‘In Utero’ recordings – there was a lot of, ‘Oh, the record label hates it,’ it was going to ruin the band, that kind of stuff.
People seem to want to give ‘Flowers’ a comedy or a comedy-drama label. I suppose it’s closer to comedy-drama, but it feels like it requires a whole new definition all of its own.
My label in Toronto was ‘Stand Pat’ and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along – big or small – that I thought should be made, I would make it.
People think I have the benefit of a public school education. I have this suave and debonair label, but really, I’m as common as muck.
When I was 23, I felt like I was further back than when I was 21. After two solo albums for this small indie label Just Music, they’d gotten no real profile. So I kind of turned away from the solo thing a bit.
I built a label at the same time I built a career.
I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It’s a great indie label and I listen to music all day. I meet people online and find out about the cool new music blogs.
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.
I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.
It’s hard for me to label myself or characterize myself.
Being on a K-pop label and agency, everything’s taken care of for you. The music is set up for you. Your food, manager, practice room, recording studios – all these things are in the palm of your hand. However, you know the compromise of what you can actually do or say.
If your label won’t let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
I actually think Justin Trudeau’s approach to label people who have legitimate concerns with his issues as being un-Canadian and intolerant – that is very dangerous.
Our society is used to judging content by its package and label.
When you label them, when one of the most powerful social media companies in the world labels people as Nazis, you could make the argument that’s inciting violence.
I didn’t think of myself as writing ‘cli-fi,’ but I’ll take the label. I’ll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories.
We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an ‘unlucky number.’ Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label ’13’ in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).
I was in a situation where I was a West Coast artist signed to an East Coast label.
I come from a Muslim family. The label ‘Muslim’ is one aspect of me, but it’s not the only part of me.
I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something.
If you’re making a film about a band or a songwriter or whomever, there’s a publisher, there’s a record label, and there are people who are vested interests in that film. But with back-up singers, because they did stuff for everybody, there’s no one party that has any vested interest in seeing the story told.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
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.
The label does what’s good for the label. Always.
I find anonymous music frees me best. Chinese pop can be perfect. I can’t decipher anything on the CD label; there is nothing I can hang on to.
I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God’s Hands.
One of my favorite moments was when me and Jay-Z made a song ‘For Rhyme or Reason.’ It ended up on ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ but they switched the beat because we couldn’t get clearance from my label.
The distinctions of what makes a book one genre or another can sometimes be a bit muddy, but generally it’s a matter of projecting who the audience will be, which is a judgment that’s based on the subject matter. ‘Mainstream’ is the cleanest label for a book that draws readers of both sexes and from a wide age-range.
People like to pigeonhole. People like to label – not just books and movies, but everything in their life. If people want to call me ‘literary horror,’ I guess that’s fine. What I’m trying to do is be both thrilling and thought-provoking.
Dabbing started with us – QC the label – Jose Guapo, Migos, Skippa Da Flippa, PeeWee Longway. When we performed, we just dabbed, and everyone started running with it. People would do the dance, but no one would say what it was.
What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five years later that welcomed challenges and that represented traits as malleable, not a label you were stuck with.
Being signed to a major label was never an option because I knew having the time to find out who you are without pressure from other people is so important.
Jimmy Iovine, he pretty much started off as an engineer and a producer, and then he started up a label. Then he built his label to have big artists like Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. Then he started up a headphone company and made it a billion dollar business. He’s a genius to me.
Major labels act as banks in terms of how they produce and release your album. No major label is really good or bad; they just 100 per cent operate as a business, which makes sense… no hard feelings.
To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.
My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.
There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.
We’ve been lucky. Even as a young, local-level band, we were able to rise out of the local scene without having any debt, without having signed the wrong deal with the wrong manager or the wrong booker or a small label.
The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was ‘high-strung’ – intensely neurotic – yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.
I’m not this bright-eyed 17-year-old that got signed to a label and is listening to all these suits tell them the best plan of action.
I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don’t think we had the label yet. But there’s no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.
I am more than just a label. Why are people so driven to labeling where we fall on the sexual spectrum?
There’s no such thing as ‘sissy bounce.’ We don’t separate it here in New Orleans at all. It’s just bounce music. Just because I’m a gay artist, they don’t have to put it in a category or label it.
I’ve started a little independent record label called ‘Six String Productions’ and recorded a couple of tunes, and I hope to do some more with some future artists next year. It’s a real passion project of mine.
I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.
In Washington, there’s always an effort to label people.
The hard left labels anyone who challenges it ‘divisive.’ The leftists live in a world where everyone is free to look different but must think the same. I don’t play their game. I threaten them and their narrative. That’s why they slap the ‘divisive’ label and attempt to dismiss me. It’s not going to work – not on me.
I don’t care who’s on the label, because I have a job to do.
I’m not with a label, so I haven’t ever felt pressure to be a certain way. I’ve got a cool team who just love music.
You don’t have to get doughty or, suddenly, because you have a new label on you, ‘Oh, I’m 50, so therefore, I have to be a certain thing.’ Follow your heart and look at your rear view as well as your front view!
To make a label change is a difficult time because there is that lag period between the product you had out and the next project you’re going to make on your new label.
As a black person on the outside, because there’s so much black art and so much of black people’s work circulating, so many people imitating what black people do, you would think that there’d be more black people on the business side. It didn’t cross my mind that every label head, for the most part, is a white guy.
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 think that on paper we did make so many of the classic mistakes that a punk band makes, signing to a major label, getting in business with the wrong people, stuff like that.
The rap against Tesla has always been of the ‘yes, but’ variety. Yes, it’s a fine artisanal designer and manufacturer of electric cars, and its CEO is one of the few business leaders alive for whom the label ‘visionary’ isn’t hyperbolic.
People in love don’t see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It’s about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don’t think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
