Labels Quotes - Page 15

Irrational crushes, infatuations, or obsessions. Whatever you want to label it, it's important to reach out to others.

I don't use labels a lot.

One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.

When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

I have never gotten into the label thing.

As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

I think staying away from labels is what makes my films refreshing.

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.

My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.

Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way.

The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling.

Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.

Every time I meet the CEO of a record label I tell them how they did it in the seventies because they want to know. I tell them, "Sign a hundred people! Throw it against the wall and see which ones stick!" And they frown and say, "Oh, we can't do that!" and they start mumbling about demographics and this and that.

Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to go is to sign these big names like Lady Gaga and expect to make gazillions.

The labels are not getting the returns they want from their PR. Plus, for every Taylor Swift there are a hundred thousand nobodies out there who are probably making better music. Self-releasing is the only way to go.