Labels Quotes - Page 25

• If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the "happy holiday" sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy day, then they are aiming at the wrong Target.

  Charles Haynes

  Christian, Religious, Holiday

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• I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.

  Steven Morrissey

  Artist, Thinking, Discovery

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

  Steven Morrissey

  Records, Maps, Internet

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Being independent is more of a mind state more than anything else. A lot of people don't understand that being an independent artist means being hands on with your career in every aspect - not being afraid to spend your own money and invest time in yourself. Although I'm affiliated with a major label, I still wake up every day with an independent mindset.

  Yo Gotti

  Mean, Independent, Artist

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• I haven't had a big-ass feature, somebody put me on a label, cash money didn't come scoop me up. I've literally put myself into millionaire position. All the stuff I've done and I'm doing has nothing to do with nobody. I don't owe anybody anything. No wife, no kids - I don't owe nobody nothin'.

  Riff Raff

  Kids, Wife, Done

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• I'm a business man and the reason I linked up with a major was because I understand they have that reach that I can't get no matter how hot I get in the streets. It's not always about money because I been had money. I want to be on TV and win awards. I want to be number one. You need a label to get through barriers.

  Yo Gotti

  Winning, Men, Awards

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• It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.

  Ann Coulter

  Dog, Mean, Differences

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.

  Jim James

  New York, Moving, Creativity

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• Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.

  Rose Macaulay

  Time, Flower, Past

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Told by an Idiot”, p.66, A&C Black

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• Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

  Gloria Steinem

  Enemy, Links, Hierarchy

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• Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

  Diane Ackerman

  Reality, Self, Mindfulness

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• When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.

  Jill Sobule

  Song, Thinking, Artist

  "Sponsor Jill Sobule's album, get a spot on it". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2009.

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• 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.

  Pearl Bailey

  Hate, Men, Necks

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• we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Together, Different, World

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• Artists will come into my office and say, "I just came from another label and they said you're research guys, you're data guys." I don't know what that means. Everybody who says that is being naive.

  Monte Lipman

  Mean, Artist, Data

  "Corner Office: Republic Records Honchos Monte & Avery Lipman Discuss Jennifer Lawrence's 'Hunger Games' Smash and Defend 'The Voice'". Interview with Andrew Hampp, www.billboard.com. December 15, 2014.

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• My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.

  Trent Reznor

  Integrity, Army, Years

  "Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. September 16, 2009.

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• The exciting thing about getting a label together and doing press for it is that hopefully some 15-year-old girl who is the only feminist in her junior-high class will hear about it and be like, "Oh, cool, I hadn't heard of that, I'm going to check it out."

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Years, Class

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage.

  Andrew Bird

  Rocks, Indie Rock, Titles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band.

  Phil Ehart

  Rocks, Band, Starting Out

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 25, 2015.

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• If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.

  Kanye West

  Successful, Rapper, Helping

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• I didn't have to fit into a mold. You make the mold. People can smell a rat. If you're doing thing for marketing and for a record label, you're going to set yourself up to be called a phony. As long as it's true to you, you do it.

  Anthony Evans

  Smell, Long, People

  "A conversation with recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Evans". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I consider us to be one of the first Internet-based bands, especially because we basically started our entire band via the Internet. Before MySpace Music even existed, we had a band MySpace page. We were one of the first fifty bands on PureVolume(.com), and we really built everything from the Internet. That's how we started talking to record labels, that's how we booked our first tours. Without the Internet social networking, like Twitter, we definitely wouldn't be where we are today. It is a huge part of the band.

  Jack Barakat

  Talking, Networking, Band

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I had to learn the hard way. There was a blindness, without any education or will or drive. Everything I started in the beginning from skate shops to record labels to a million and one side hustles that I went in without knowing how I was going to do it, a lot of those ventures just went out of business.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Knowing, Hustle, Way

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• I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.

  Conor Oberst

  Running, Kids

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.

  Aaron Belz

  Silly, Watches, Might

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