Labels Quotes - Page 36

• Antwan Patton and Andre Benjamin saved my life. That's how I view them giving me a record deal, with nothing but love and adoration. I saw Big Boi have to do what he kept doing after Dre said he didn't want to do touring and Aquemini [the label].

  Killer Mike

  Views, Giving, Want

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• 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.

  Mick Hucknall

  Thinking, News, Records

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• I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music.

  Michael Jackson

  Hate, Should, Disco

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• I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. The label sort of capitalized on that desperation and that competition. In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative. People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

  Adrian Grenier

  Selfish, Thinking, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Nowadays, it's a lot more in the kids hands. You don't really need a record label. You can get the money together yourselves. You can just do it through Myspace. There are bands that are huge, without record labels today. Now, I think it's a lot more, in kids hands.

  Mattew Nicholls

  Kids, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• You have to be able to grow and move with the organism that is the music industry. You need to maintain flexibility. Ownership of your own stuff is key and then you're able to dictate on a present-terms basis what would be the most effective way to protect yourself and what you've created. You also don't want to lock yourself into a situation where a major label owns part of your touring and merchandise.

  Eddie Vedder

  Moving, Keys, Want

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• Everyone just wants to see what you can do for yourself. People think that just because I have some big ridiculous number on my myspace page that it's all easy for me. People are interested but I don't come home to labels waiting outside my house.

  Drake

  Home, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I think people think that labels can get you features more than you can get your own. I just doesn't work like that.

  Kid Ink

  Thinking, People, Features

  Source: bestfan.com

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• I've seen people who don't have deals get features from people that labels can't even get features from, because you gotta show face and be in-tune with these guys who still have that independent mind set as far how you hustle yourself. Because they only really care at the end of the day about the dollas.

  Kid Ink

  Independent, People, Guy

  Source: bestfan.com

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• I think it gave us the freedom to be more creative and do things the way we wanted to do them, so if a label liked it that was cool and if they didn't like it fine. Ultimately it was up to us to sink or swim and there was nobody telling us what direction to go in. I think that made the entire record more diverse.

  Jason C. Miller

  Thinking, Creative, Swim

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

  James Frey

  Art, Book, Mean

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Actors, Matter, Film

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. February 2004.

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• I am who I am and I don't think you can put a label on it.

  Cody Johnson

  Thinking, Who I Am, I Am Who I Am

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• I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels and we didn't have any music business savvy which we could have used. We made a series of hilarious mistakes not in terms of music but in terms of making it happen.

  Arto Lindsay

  Mistake, Thinking, Ambitious

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• The determination and enthusiasm of the Category 5 team makes it the perfect home for my music as I embark on this next stage of my career. The promotional savvy and level of support they've pledged meets or exceeds anything I've seen from the major labels I've been associated with.

  Travis Tritt

  Determination, Team, Home

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• When I finished Westlife, we had - Louie Walsh is still managing me - I was lucky to have options from different labels such as Sony and Universal. When we met Capitol and Nick Raphael, I just believed in them the most, and it looked like they believed in me the most.

  Shane Filan

  Different, Lucky, Sony

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• I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

  Coco Chanel

  Nice, School, Names

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• I am an atheist. There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for adopting the agnostic moniker? If "atheist" means someone who does not believe in God, then an atheist is what I am. But I detest all such labels. Call me what you like - humanist, secular humanist, agnostic, nonbeliever, nontheist, freethinker, heretic, or even bright. I prefer skeptic.

  Michael Shermer

  Atheist, Believe, Mean

  "Why I Am An Atheist" by Michael Shermer, michaelshermer.com. June 23, 2005.

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• To label Jason Randal a magician does a disservice. You'll think the laws of physics, nature, the universe itself have been suspended. He's as good as Houdini was at his best!

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Law, Doe

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• The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion gives strong sanction to both-and mixes explosively with both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Two, Giving

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

  Warren Buffett

  Competition, May, Warning

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• Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.

  Dennis Prager

  Sex, Years, Definitions

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• My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.

  Paul McCartney

  Sitting, Records, Dinosaurs

  "Life for a man on the run". Interview with Kim Murphy, articles.latimes.com. June 3, 2007.

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• I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

  Dick Cavett

  Mean, Fighting, Intellectual

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 2, 2010.

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• The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Violence, Moments, Humans

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