Labels Quotes - Page 32

• I was never pushed into the business. I wanted to play the guitar. When my dad found out I could play pretty good he took me into the studio one day. I did my first session for his label. We did quite a few sessions up there.

  Shuggie Otis

  Dad, Guitar, Play

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I feel that if you can transcend the color of your skin, with your talent, why carry that as a badge or a label?

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Color, Skins, Talent

  "Exclusive: Giancarlo Esposito Talks Current Projects, More; Directing Series On Slave Abolitionist John Brown". Interview by Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2012.

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• I've been on a major label for 14 years. I've always wanted as many people as possible to hear my music, and it definitely made sense for the majority of my career to be on a major label, on a distribution level, to be in people's faces and be out there, and have access to major labels' incredible machine, even though they have not understood or haven't been invested in what I was doing.

  DJ Shadow

  Years, Careers, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

  Aimee Mann

  Benefits, Feels, Majors

  "Aimee Mann: A Space of Her Own". Interview with Nancy Updike, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2002.

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• If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

  Aimee Mann

  Artist, Trying, Records

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

  Aimee Mann

  Selling More, Records, My Own

  "Aimee Mann: A Space of Her Own". Interview with Nancy Updike, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2002.

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• First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.

  Wayne White

  Moving, Thinking, Mind

  "That's what art really tries to do. Just strip away all the pretense and it's trying to entertain and excite". Interview with Julie Thomson, logger.believermag.com. October 9, 2013.

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• There are a lot of barbecue sauces. But I've been using Head Country barbecue sauce for 20 to 25 years, which is manufactured in Ponca City, Oklahoma. It's just awesome and has tremendous flavor. Many professional cooks use it and it can be found at Kroger and Walmart stores around the country. I use the Original, which has a white label and is a classic. But there's also a hickory flavor, called Hickory Smoke and one that has a little heat.

  Johnny Trigg

  Country, Oklahoma, Years

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• Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.

  Michael J Cohen

  Thinking, Perception, Stories

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• New Amsterdam Records, a new label run by composers, has begun documenting this hybrid music, with invigorating discs by the band itsnotyouitsme and the composers Corey Dargel and William Brittelle.

  Allan Kozinn

  Running, Band, Records

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• Forget trendy designer labels. Jeans, a sweater or a t-shirt worn under a jacket that seems welded to you. When it's just right, when you don't see the effort, it's irresistible.

  Emmanuelle Alt

  Jeans, Sweaters, Effort

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• The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.

  Wendy McElroy

  School, People, Goal

  Wendy McElroy (1982). “Demystifying the State”

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• Table the label and wear your own name.

  Mr. T

  Names, Tables

  "Cheesy Mr. T. Clip Advises You to 'Table the Label'". www.moviefone.com. May 26, 2010.

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• It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining [by the major labels]. Some people get into this music to make a killing but music is a way to make a living.

  Chuck D

  People, Hip Hop, Hustle

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• I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Empowered, Feels, Knows

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I've had a very different career than a lot of other musicians. I went through the major labels. I was signed to two major labels and bands. I've toured with Aerosmith, and I've had records on the charts, songs in the movies. If you had checklist of things a person wants to accomplish in music...I've done a lot. And I don't mean that in an egotistical way; I never take it for granted. But you can't think outside the box unless you know what's in the box.

  Michael Angelo Batio

  Song, Mean, Thinking

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• I know what it's like being with a major label. But I've always wanted to do things differently. And when I found out that the internet was a digital medium that could transfer binary code, the 0s and 1s - which is what a CD is - I knew it was only a matter of time before the feed would be fast enough to transfer files.

  Michael Angelo Batio

  Cds, Would Be, Matter

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• I'm not singer; every time I have the urge to sing something, I don't want to do it in front of certain people. I was always that kid afraid of failing, so I just didn't do things. I don't know how to ride a bike, I don't know how to drive. I broke out of shell a bit, and I still am. I think it's more about trying to be the full person I imagine myself to be, regardless of what that means in terms of labels, shade from people, and all of that.

  Le1f

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

  Paul Tournier

  Men, Perspective, Enemy

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• Furthermore, I shall explain the nature of dharmata: Such a nature as this cannot be determined to be any one thing. So however you label it, that is how it appears.

  Dalai Lama

  Determined, One Thing

  Dalai Lama (2004). “Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection”, Snow Lion Publication

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• 'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams.

  Dave Douglas

  Running, Artist, Player

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• A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

  Alan Arkin

  Opportunity, Identity, Limits

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• When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.

  Daniel Goleman

  Frustration, Light, Creative

  Daniel Goleman (1993). “The Creative Spirit”, Plume Books

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• I have been to non-denominational churches like National Community Church in Washington D.C., but I've also gone to Lake Placid Baptist and a slew of other churches. I got baptized with my fiancé (Nic Taylor) this last year at Saranac Lake Baptist Church (in New York), so maybe that makes us Baptist. But for me, it's really been about my relationship with Christ and not so much about a denomination or a label.

  Elana Meyers

  New York, Lakes, Years

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the day I have to fall in love with the characters that I play. For me, they have to be real characters with real objectives, and driving forces. So they're all different.

  Edi Gathegi

  Falling In Love, Real, Character

  "No Rest for the Wicked: Edi Gathegi Talks 'Criminal Activities', 'The Blacklist' and Playing Villainous Characters". Interview with Aramide Tinubu, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2015.

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