Labels Quotes - Page 38

• The best part of being signed by a major label was having the support of a big company behind me and the ability to meet new artists and producers.

  Jessica Sanchez

  Artist, Support, Bigs

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• My experience working with a major label was not all bad, I was blessed to go through that experience, and I know what to do during the next time around.

  Jessica Sanchez

  Blessed, Next, Knows

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. January 19, 2016.

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• There is no question that the US market is the hardest to break into. I believe that the reason for this primarily has to do with the fact that the majority of the most powerful radio stations in the US are owned by Clear Channel. They are massive and have the ability to break artists worldwide. For the most part, they are dealing directly with the major labels in the US, with whom they have had long relationships. If you are an artist that is not being pushed by Clear Channel radio in the US, your chances of becoming a household name are slim.

  Wendy Starland

  Powerful, Believe, Artist

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• If you want to be a songwriter and place a song with a popular artist, then it's ok to follow the trends. This is mainly because many labels are afraid to take big risks on something that sounds too different than the status quo.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Artist, Risk

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• They think that I was like Amy Grant, when actually no! The label went bankrupt and maybe sold a couple hundred records and that's about it. I was just trying different things.

  Katy Perry

  Couple, Thinking, Trying Different Things

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• I am a pop girl! And I'm on a major label. I enjoy singing pop songs.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Song, Singing

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• I want my music to be something that people use in order to access parts of themselves. So in that sense, every piece I write is about all emotions at once, about the lines in between. It's never only about one thing or another. It's emotionally getting at those things that we can't really describe - things for which we don't have labels. So yes, it's about something, and it has a use. It's neither about nothing nor about something concrete - it's about what you bring to it as a listener.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Writing, Order, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes you can just tell there's something unique about it, but you can never really truly tell until you show it to a third party - you show it to you friends, or you show it to people you know that know about music like my label or those kinda people.

  Flume

  Party, Unique, People

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

  Wyclef Jean

  Pulse, Generations, Records

  "We Played Two Truths and a Lie With Wyclef Jean and The Knocks". Interview with Ezra Marcus, livenation.vice.com. January 22, 2016.

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• Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.

  Dawn Angelique

  Limits, Tricks, Majors

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

  Dawn Angelique

  Team, Able, Solo

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I want longevity; I love music, being a musician is the greatest gift in the world to me, and if I were to get signed to a label, my family and team around me are always gonna be there to make sure they want the very best for me. My fans are what it's all about.

  Christina Grimmie

  Team, Musician, Fans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like to use the words "real women," honestly. I like to use the word woman. And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin, or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people. At the end of the day we just all want to be known as women or models or actresses or whatever.

  Ashley Graham

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You know, when you see a haircut of yourself from around 12 or 13, it's rough. I also had really bad acne. Where I had to take this medicine - serious medicine - with warning on the label, like, "Do NOT take this if you are pregnant." Thank God I wasn't pregnant at the time. But yeah, I just had bad haircuts, bad acne, and bad clothes for a long time. And probably still right now.

  Rob Huebel

  Medicine, Clothes, Long

  "Rob Huebel on meeting Paul McCartney and how he knows Bigfoot exists". "11 Questions" with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2016.

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• The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label of "immigrant literature" after I had read quite a number of reviews (in different countries) involving books written by 'immigrants.'

  Sasa Stanisic

  Country, Book, Writing

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Migrants, Literature, Absurd

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was on the big labels, I never calculated what would make me sell more records. I just did what I did -no different than when I wrote songs for myself in high-school.

  Jill Sobule

  Song, School, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'll say about Fueled By Ramen is, I don't know what anyone else's experience has been, but we signed to them as Fun. We already had a fanbase, we already had music out there so when they signed us they were signing our vision. I always think it's so weird when people think that Fueled By Raman are trying to change us or mould us into something else, as we weren't a bunch of kids playing in a garage who joined a label and then collectively worked on a vision, like, they signed us with the intention of letting us be Fun.

  Jack Antonoff

  Fun, Kids, Thinking

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• 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.

  Tom DeLonge

  Band, Holding On, Resources

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• When you work with a major label they create their own message for you and a lot of the time that works great, or at least it did back in the 90's but now it doesn't work, so I think as an artist if you learn your own business, like anybody would when they want to start a little restaurant - they'd figure it out and then build it and they work hard - then it could be your own little business that you grew to as big as you want it to be but you had much more control with how to communicate it and how it's cared for.

  Tom DeLonge

  Hard Work, Artist, Thinking

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• Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Self, Worry, Conditioning

  Source: aalbc.com

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• 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.

  Theresa Wayman

  Years, Fans, Band

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• It's hard to fully enjoy your time on Earth without having your health. Ask anyone battling health issues - most especially, issues that could have been avoided. For me, I read food labels, I seek out places to purchase the best-quality foods available to me, and I inquire about how they are produced (meats and fruits/vegetables).

  Adam Rodriguez

  Vegetables, Issues, Quality

  "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez On Reading Food Labels, Three Phrases to Live By, to Win for Love, Forward Thinking, and How We’re All in This Together". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 16, 2015.

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• If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for them, then you should get out of there if you're that artist.

  Matt Corby

  Artist, Order, Records

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the undermining labels they place on us. We pay attention to what our community situation is and what we need.

  Chuck D

  Media, People, Community

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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