Labels Quotes - Page 4

• If you label me, you negate me?

  Wayne Campbell

  Ifs

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• Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Book

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• I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

  Michael Graves

  People, Negative, Care

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• Labels are for cans, not people.

  Anthony Rapp

  People

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

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• There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

  R. D. Laing

  Diversity, Political, Facts

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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

  Nikki Sixx

  People, Want, Format

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• I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.

  Jessica Simpson

  Hate, Thinking, Trying

  "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica". www.imdb.com. 2003 - 2005.

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• Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Museums, Language, Myth

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• You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

  Billy Sherwood

  Ideas, Musician, These Days

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• I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

  Adam Jones

  Thinking, People, Marketing

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• It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

  Margaret Mead

  Honesty, Acceptance, Evil

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

  Jackie Robinson

  Party, Independent, Issues

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• I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Eye, Fighting, People

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• I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry.'

  Jewel

  Book, Records, Odd

  "Jewel, the poet: 'The most honest expression I can find'" by Michael Okwu, www.cnn.com. June 01, 1998.

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• It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Style, Together

  Interview with Amy Odell, www.thecut.com. February 5, 2009.

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• I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

  Naomi Watts

  Sexy, Self, Intense

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

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• There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Reason, Anti Semitic, No Reason

  "'The veil? It protects us from ugly women'" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• As a label, you have to treat every group and every record as a unique entity. I think that that has been our success, rather than relying upon a fan base.

  Greg Ginn

  Unique, Thinking, Groups

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• I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

  Chingy

  Kids, Artist, Long

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• I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

  Gary Wright

  Artist, Hands, Developing

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• In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Records, Rooms, Acoustics

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• I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

  Lester Bangs

  Couple, Mean, Independent

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

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• I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

  David Knopfler

  Fun, Ducks, Curves

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• I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

  Blythe Danner

  Play, Trying, Different

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• It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

  Matthew Sweet

  Years, Three, Records

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