Labels Quotes - Page 7

• I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

  Moby

  Believe, Should, Institutions

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• In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works, right? It's like, you borrow $100,000 from a record label, so you don't make any money until you make back that money for them. In theory, they have you held hostage, so you've got to do every little stupid thing that they want you to do.

  Patrick Carney

  Stupid, Records, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People on the autism spectrum don't think the same way you do. In my life, people who made a difference were those who didn't see labels, who believed in building on what was there. These were people who didn't try to drag me into their world, but came into mine instead.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

  Kenny Chesney

  Artist, Gone, Records

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• Now I'm a symbol of what to be and how hard to work. I have heads of major labels say, "I wish you could teach our artists how to do it." At one point I was the punching bag of what not to be, and now I'm the model of what to be.

  Kenny Chesney

  Artist, Wish, Bags

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• I don't get a lot of big offers. Never have in my career. For some reason, record labels don't call me, famous bands don't call me, only kids in rock bands. I don't know why, and I don't worry about it. I would worry about it if I wasn't working, if I was unemployed.

  Gordon Raphael

  Kids, Careers, Rocks

  Source: www.indieberlin.de

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• The first CD I had, that I think had had any redeeming qualities to it, I did when I was 25 with a relatively small label called Chiarascuro.

  Jon Gordon

  Thinking, Cds, Quality

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• If in fact the Republicans make some modifications [of Obamacare], some of which I may have been seeking previously, but they wouldn't cooperate because they didn't wanna make the system work, and re-label it as Trumpcare, I'm fine with that.

  Barack Obama

  Obamacare, May, Facts

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead, sitting there forever, frozen. So, I'm not a great one for these modernist, post modernist, post colonial labels. I think they serve certain purpose. You do need some kind of sign post here and there, but it can also become an end in itself.

  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking, Forever, Here And There

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• My whole life has been completely about being underestimated. I remember when Blink signed to a major label, and we had a debut party for the signing. No one came to party, only the guy that signed us. And I remember sitting there, like, "S**t, no one likes this."

  Tom DeLonge

  Party, Guy, Sitting

  "The Guy From Blink-182 Has One Helluva Story About Aliens". Interview With AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. March 21, 2017.

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• Maybe when the President tells you that you should be afraid of Mexicans or Muslims or Jews or black people or gay people or trans people, you'll realize that those are just labels, that underneath it all we're all the same people, we all have the same aspirations, the same hopes, the same desires, that we all share the same values.

  Reza Aslan

  Gay, People, Black

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'd like to think that what my style of writing is, is an attempt not so much to judge the characters that I'm writing about, to expose them, to label them, to stereotype them, but instead to make them come alive for the reader with all their strengths and their flaws intact.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• You might see someone with dreadlocks and label them a hippie in your head, but that doesn't mean they think of themselves that way. A lot of people look at me and see I have a beard and shaggy hair, and think I'm a hippie. I'm not a hippie, and I'm not not a hippie. I don't know what the f**k I am.

  Jim James

  Hippie, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• This may sound pernickety but I wouldn't describe myself as an evangelical. These are labels, which I don't think are helpful. If I was going to use any label it would be Christian, and if you push me any further I'd say I'm an Anglican - that's the family of the Church that I belong to. There's nothing wrong with any of the other labels, but if you have any of them I want them all. If you're going to say, 'I'm Catholic, liberal, evangelical...' let's have them all.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Thinking, Catholic

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

  John Lydon

  Writing, People, Competition

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• I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

  Shirley Manson

  Sick, Records, Solo

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• I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.

  Chris Martin

  Fine, Majors, Knows

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• I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.

  Alexander McQueen

  Clothes, People, Care

  "The Real McQueen" by Susannah Frankel, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 1, 2007.

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• Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Christianity, Lifestyle

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• My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, 'How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?'

  Nicki Minaj

  Artist, People, Goal

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• It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

  Joe Nichols

  Country, Trying, Sound

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• You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

  Edward Norton

  Independent, Film, Studios

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.

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• The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Personality, Historical

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• The only thing major labels can really offer is money.

  Conor Oberst

  Offers, Majors

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• I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fighting, Thinking, Two

  "Novelist Chuck Palahniuk". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 28, 2010.

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