Labels Quotes - Page 16

When a label is throwing money at you, you have to recoup it.

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

I really should come with a warning label.

The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.

I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.

The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.

I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.

We definitely needed to spend a good solid year just finding ourselves before anyone would even notice us. We had our fan-base growing around here in Los Angeles, but I wouldn't even have wanted anyone to come out to see us that was from a record label or something like that at that time, because we really needed to feel ourselves out as a live band.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

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.

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!"

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength

I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.

If it's a good record or a good recording, then word of mouth will build for that reason, not before the fact, not before anyone's heard it, not because of MySpace or the label.

I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.

I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.

We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.