Labels Quotes - Page 8

To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.

Well, the good news is that there's quite a lot of cynicism about major labels within radio and the press. I think they have been largely disillusioned by the manner in which the record companies have developed music.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

I’m proud of the work that I’ve done. I don’t care what people label me as.

If you gotta label me, label me proud.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

A lot of people have tried to put labels on me, but right now I'm focused on being Kristi Noem and getting my message out to South Dakotans.

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked approvingly. "Sensible Mole! The very thing! Now we shall be able to mull some ale. Get the things ready, Mole, while I draw the corks."

I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.

The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

I don't put labels on myself.

You don't need to be at a major, not at all. Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.