Labels Quotes:

We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might be inherently silly. Those are things that are almost designed to be thrown away.

- Aaron Belz

topic: Silly, Watches, Labels, Tv Commercial, Taglines

I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual,' but bi-curious? Yea.

- Adam Lambert

topic: Bisexual, Giving, Labels

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

- Adam Rich

topic: Labels, Records, Pay, Record Labels

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

- Adam Rich

topic: Writing, Labels, Band

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

- Adam Rich

topic: People, Support, Labels

I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way. ---Yasu

- Ai Yazawa

topic: People, Labels, Want

You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

- Alan Light

topic: Majority, Needs, Labels, Don't Need You

A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

- Alan Sokal

source: Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal (2011). “Intellectual Impostures”, p.196, Profile Books

topic: Doe, Labels, Virtue

I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it? A bolt of pain went through my intestines before I realized that it was not SADNESS but SARDINES.

- Aleksandar Hemon

topic: Pain, Sadness, Labels, Sardines, Intestines

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

- Alison Moyet

topic: Independent, Gold, Labels

I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.

- Amber Heard

topic: Labels

I don't label myself one way or another. I love who I love; it's the person that matters.

- Amber Heard

topic: Labels, Matter, Way

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

- Anais Nin

topic: Labels, Matter, Speak

I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage.

- Andrew Bird

topic: Rocks, Titles, Labels, Whatever You Say, Indie Rock

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

- Andrew Solomon

topic: Gold, Identity, Labels

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

- Aneurin Bevan

topic: Political, Labels, Genius, Flamboyant, Prime Minister

I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.

- Ani DiFranco

topic: Moving, Thinking, Labels, Labeling, Always Moving

Labels are for cans, not people.

- Anthony Rapp

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

topic: People, Labels

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

- Arlen Specter

topic: Thinking, Labels, Bikinis

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

- Arlen Specter

source: "Specter: A Democrat, and in between, a Republican", www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2011.

topic: Party, Independent, Labels

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities,

- Artur Davis

source: "Artur Davis, Former Democratic Congressman, Will Switch Parties", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2012.

topic: Country, Labels, Possibility

Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.

- Ayelet Waldman

topic: Mother, Baby, Labels, Bad Mother

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

- Babyface

topic: Artist, Labels, Novas

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Labels, Cadillacs, Parks, Ignominy, Springsteen

Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it.

- Barbara Gittings

topic: Labels, Able, Steps, Steps Forward

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

- Barbara Kruger

topic: Thinking, Labels, Way, Installation

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

- Barry Lyga

topic: Waste, Energy, Labels

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

- Barry White

topic: Labels, Opinion

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

- Ben Shahn

source: Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.48, Harvard University Press

topic: Believe, Artist, Labels

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Christian, Class, Labels, Christian Ethics

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

- Betsey Johnson

topic: Labels

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

- Bill Frisell

topic: Hate, People, Labels

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

topic: Ideas, Musician, Labels

The music business will be revitalized by musicians, not the labels or Live Nation. When the musicians decide to put music first, instead of money, the public will flock to the fruits and the scene will be healthy again.

- Bob Lefsetz

topic: Healthy, Musician, Labels

Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

- Bobby Sands

source: Bobby Sands (1998). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Mercier PressLtd

topic: Struggle, Criminals, Labels

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding

- Boyd Rice

topic: Understanding, Labels, Expenses, Truth Prevails, Truth Will Prevail

Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.

- Bram Fischer

topic: Party, Labels, Fifteen, Communist Party

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

- Brian McKnight

topic: Artist, Labels, Wanted

As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

- Brian Setzer

topic: United States, Labels, Bass, Rockabilly

You had to pick something like Blue Suede Shoes because it's the flagship of the Sun label, but then I wanted to dig down and find something like Rakin' and Scrapin'.

- Brian Setzer

topic: Blue, Shoes, Labels

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.

- Bruce Dickinson

topic: Blow, Labels, Band

I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'

- Bruno Mars

topic: President, Labels, Looks, Record Labels

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

- Bryan Batt

topic: Inspire, Risk, Labels, Decor

I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label,

- Bryan Ferry

topic: Wine, Labels, Ugly

Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

- C.D. Wright

source: C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

topic: Labels, Vagrants, Sticks

If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.

- Cara Delevingne

topic: Giving, Trying, Labels

You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

- Carine Roitfeld

topic: Mistake, Clothes, Labels, Elegant

I'm so excited that my label Rocker Records has partnered with Cleopatra Records to put out this collection of RARE and UNIQUE kick ***** rock !!!

- Carmine Appice

topic: Unique, Rocks, Labels

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

- Carol S. Dweck

topic: Trying, Labels, Information, Problem Solvers

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

- Carrot Top

topic: People, Labels, Want

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

- Catherine Tate

source: "What I'm not is a cheery person". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

topic: Personality, Would Be, Labels, Ginger

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

- Charles Frazier

source: "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

topic: Memories, Writing, Labels

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

- Chris Martin

topic: Labels, Fine, Meant To Be

We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.

- Christine Gregoire

source: Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

topic: Legacy, Labels, Problem, Willing To Change, Partisans

I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money.

- Chuck D

topic: Labels

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

- Chuck D

topic: Artist, Labels, Jam

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

- Chuck Mangione

topic: Ideas, People, Labels, Preconceived Ideas

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Names, Giving, Labels

Not everyone is the same. You can't label a person just because of what they do or what they've done.

- Common

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Labels, Done, Persons

I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.

- Conor Oberst

topic: Running, Kids, Labels

God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.

- Craig Groeschel

topic: Labels, Break, Hostage

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Fashion, Names, Labels, Railway Station, Stations

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

- Danny Brown

source: "Danny Brown Town". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2012.

topic: Labels, Want, Reason

It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

- Darius Rucker

topic: Important, Labels, Hearing

Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

- Darius Rucker

topic: People, Labels, Records, Record Labels

If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.

- Dave Van Ronk

topic: Labels, Crackers, Boxes, Trickle Down

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

topic: Labels, Records, Rooms, Signing, Closing Down

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

- David Arquette

source: "David Arquette Furious Over New York Times' Blogger's Comments About Courteney Cox's Weight" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 25, 2010.

topic: Past, People, Labels, Skinny People

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

- David Baldacci

topic: Trying, Labels, World, Hardest Thing

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

- David Levithan

topic: Stupid, Wish, Labels

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

- David Maister

topic: Inspiring, Giving, Labels, Professionalism

Take away all your labels and you are the Infinite Being.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Labels, Infinite

To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Limits, Labels, Infinite, Define Yourself

I have never gotten into the label thing.

- Diana Ross

topic: Labels

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

- Dick Cavett

topic: Intellectual, Labels, Misunderstanding

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

- Dougray Scott

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

topic: Acting, Labels, Method Acting

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

- Drew Carey

topic: Years, Labels, Libertarian, Modern Day, Great Libertarian

My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Mind, Labels, Facts

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Thinking, Essence, Labels

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Block, Mind, Labels, True Relationship

If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.

- Eddie Izzard

topic: Comedian, Labels, Well Known

I looked at my family and I said, "I've got a spouse. I've got three kids. There's no way I'm ever buying a music subscription service for the five of us. It's just not going to happen." So we wanted to do something really great for families... It wasn't easy. We had to convince the labels it was in their best interests, too.

- Eddy Cue

source: "Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue Talk Filling the 'Hole' With Apple Music". Interview with Steve Knopper, www.rollingstone.com. June 8, 2015.

topic: Kids, Three, Labels, Subscription

Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.

- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

topic: Artist, Roles, Labels, Record Labels

When you record for a label, they own that material in perpetuity, meaning that they can release, chose not to release , or repackage it any way they so choose... with or without the permission of the artist.

- Edgar Winter

topic: Artist, Labels, Records

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

- Edward Norton

topic: Independent, Labels, Film, Independent Film

So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.

- Edward Whitacre, Jr.

source: "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road". www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.

topic: Government, Long, Labels, Tarp

I think that every record label has its trials and tribulations, its ups and downs. The only thing you can do is hope to recognize what it is that makes you great, and to try and continue to capture it.

- El-P

topic: Thinking, Trying, Labels, Record Labels

I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.

- El-P

topic: Artist, Years, Labels

It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, "This is who you are. This is what you are.

- Elizabeth Scott

topic: People, Bullshit, Labels

There is no back label with a story on a beer can.

- Ely Callaway Jr.

topic: Wine, Beer, Labels

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

- Emeli Sande

topic: Doors, Trying, Labels

Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.

- Emeli Sande

topic: Thinking, Artist, Labels, Think Twice

I think you've got to keep it simple, keep it fresh. Stay away from all that processed stuff, read the labels.

- Emeril Lagasse

topic: Simple, Thinking, Labels, Keep It Simple

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

- Emraan Hashmi

topic: Careers, Directors, Labels, Film Directors

If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,

- Eric Holder

topic: Labels, Want, Accepting

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

- Erin Gruwell

source: The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.86, Broadway Books

topic: Mexican, Labels, Proud

I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Giving, House, Labels

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

- Erykah Badu

topic: Art, Giving, Labels

I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

- Ester Dean

source: "Hitmaker Ester Dean on Songwriting, Fighting and Eating Hot Dogs (Q&A)". Interview with Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 6, 2013.

topic: Girl, Fighting, Labels, Record Labels

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

- Evan Dando

topic: Boss, Labels, Records, Record Labels

One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.

- Evan Davis

topic: Keys, Germany, Labels, Volkswagens

I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.

- Evan Rachel Wood

topic: Men, Labels, Way

Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.

- Francis Chan

source: Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.94, David C Cook

topic: Sides, Labels, Done, Following Christ

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

- Franz Kafka

topic: People, Adjectives, Labels

Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.

- Freeman Patterson

source: Freeman Patterson (1990). “Photography and the art of seeing”

topic: Mean, Vision, Labels

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

- Gale Norton

topic: People, Effort, Labels

Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.

- Gary Allan

topic: People, Labels, Looks, Record Labels

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

- Gary Wright

topic: Son, Artist, Labels, Record Labels, Intangible

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

- Gary Wright

topic: Artist, Hands, Labels

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

- Geoffrey Holder

topic: Fighting, Free Spirit, Labels

Use Campaign link tagging labels all for specifying slight differences in content for split testing.

- Georg Cantor

topic: Differences, Campaigns, Labels

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

- George Meany

topic: Struggle, Labels, Pieces, Labor Union, Union Solidarity

I'm a label that wants to sell. I believe in clothes.

- Giambattista Valli

topic: Believe, Clothes, Labels

Satan labels you. God names you.

- Gloria Gaither

topic: Names, Labels, Satan

Increasing numbers of Pagans are identifying themselves as animists or naming their worldview as animism. Some Pagans use the term animism to refer to one strand within their Paganism, while others identify it as the most appropriate label for everything they do.

- Graham Harvey

topic: Numbers, Labels, Use, Animism

Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.

- Greg Ginn

topic: Running, Labels, Records

At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money.

- Greg Laswell

topic: Independent, Labels, Way

Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as 'negative' is actually a liberating process for me.

- Grey DeLisle

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

topic: Song, Negative, Labels

In contemporary society, advertising is everywhere. We cannot walk down the street, shop, watch television, go through our mail, log on to the Internet, read a newspaper or take a train without encountering it. Whether we are alone, with our friends or family, or in a crowd, advertising is always with us, if only on the label of something we are using.

- Guy Cook

source: Guy Cook (2001). “The Discourse of Advertising”, p.1, Psychology Press

topic: Watches, Labels, Television, Contemporary Society

The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.

- Guy Oseary

source: "Meet the upstart new company that is changing the face of music" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2008.

topic: Risk, Labels, Jam

The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.

- Guy Oseary

source: "Madonna settles feud with Warner Music". The Associated Press, www.today.com. June 15, 2004.

topic: Independent, Perfect, Labels, Maverick, Perfect Fit

A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are

- Heather Brewer

source: Heather Brewer (2011). “Twelfth Grade Kills #5: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, Penguin

topic: Doe, Labels, Persons

I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.

- Heather Dubrow

source: "'Real Housewives of O.C.'s' Heather Dubrow Reveals 5 Things You Didn't Know About Her" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 21, 2012.

topic: Nice, House, Labels, Nice Things

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

- Helen Reddy

topic: Exercise, Labels, Levels, Merchandising

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!

- Helena Bonham Carter

topic: Labels, Dressers

Don't put labels on people. See them as people who Christ died for.

- Henry Blackaby

topic: People, Labels, Christ

I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president.

- Howard Dean

topic: Long, President, Labels

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

- Ian MacKaye

topic: Labels, Showing Up, Making Money

With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

- Ian MacKaye

topic: People, Greed, Labels, Napster

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.

- Ice T

topic: Labels, Records, Dissing

Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.

- Ines de La Fressange

topic: Clever, Style, Labels, Jackpot, Blouses

All labels are offensive in some way.

- J Mascis

source: "J Mascis: 'I never took it that seriously'". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2012.

topic: Labels, Way, Offensive

I consider us to be one of the first Internet-based bands, especially because we basically started our entire band via the Internet. Before MySpace Music even existed, we had a band MySpace page. We were one of the first fifty bands on PureVolume(.com), and we really built everything from the Internet. That's how we started talking to record labels, that's how we booked our first tours. Without the Internet social networking, like Twitter, we definitely wouldn't be where we are today. It is a huge part of the band.

- Jack Barakat

source: Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

topic: Talking, Networking, Labels, Social Networking

I don't use labels a lot.

- Jack Kemp

topic: Labels, Use

Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.

- James Blunt

topic: Stupid, Normal, Labels, Rollercoaster

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

- James Branch Cabell

source: The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8

topic: Labels, World, Littles, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.

- James Iha

topic: Mean, Sound, Labels, Pop Bands, Heavy Music

Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.

- James Morcan

topic: Labels, Genius, Freak

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

- Jamie Redknapp

topic: Labels, Sticks, Sometimes

Irrational crushes, infatuations, or obsessions. Whatever you want to label it, it's important to reach out to others.

- Janeane Garofalo

topic: Crush, Important, Labels

Labels are for cans, not for people.

- Jared Leto

topic: People, Labels

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

- Jean Dujardin

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

topic: What Matters, People, Labels, Estimation

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

- Jean-Marie Le Pen

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

topic: Labels, Reason, Anti Semitic

I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said.

- Jeff Garcia

topic: Girlfriend, Labels, Speak

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

- Jello Biafra

topic: Labels, Band, Lasts

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

- Jerry Rubin

topic: Gun, Pigs, Labels

Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.

- Jim Lee

topic: Labels, Records, Today, Celtic Music

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

- Jo Brand

topic: People, Labels, Behave

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

- Joan Baez

topic: People, Firsts, Labels, Pacifist

In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

- Joan Halifax

source: Joan Halifax (2008). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.172, Shambhala Publications

topic: Teacher, Labels, Good Things

Music is music you don't have to put a label on it

- Joe Perry

topic: Labels, Music Is

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

- Joel Fuhrman

topic: Important, Labels, Remember, Healthy Eating

You have a destiny to fulfill, something greater than you've ever even imagined. But if you're going to become all you were created to be, you've got to take off the “average” label.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Destiny, Average, Labels, Just Be Yourself

I'm myself, not a label.

- John Brunner

source: John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.196, Open Road Media

topic: Labels

I don't put labels on myself.

- John Engler

topic: Labels

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

- John Taylor Gatto

topic: Children, Independence, Labels, Child Labor

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

- John Zorn

topic: Tired, Labels, Reason, Dropping Things

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

- Jonathan Coe

topic: Labels, Accurate, Feels

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

- Joshua Homme

topic: Thinking, Labels, Want

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

- Joshua Homme

topic: Art, Labels, Sake

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

- Joyce Cary

source: Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

topic: Real, Knowing Who You Are, Labels

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

- Judah Smith

topic: People, Needs, Labels

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

- Julian Assange

topic: People, Criminals, Labels

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

- Julie Nixon Eisenhower

topic: Strong Women, Mean, Labels

If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.

- Kanye West

topic: Successful, Rapper, Labels

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

- Karel Capek

topic: Thinking, Labels, Becoming, Collectivity

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

- Karl Marx

topic: Doe, Labels, Stalking

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

- Katherine Heigl

topic: Hollywood, Labels, Likes

The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.

- Kina Grannis

source: "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview with Cosmo Girl, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

topic: Important, Labels, Way

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

- Kingsley Amis

topic: Wine, Labels, Too Short

Very active in the label, maybe to a fault sometimes.

- Kirk Franklin

topic: Labels, Faults, Sometimes

A lot of people have tried to put labels on me, but right now I'm focused on being Kristi Noem and getting my message out to South Dakotans.

- Kristi Noem

topic: People, Labels, Messages

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

- Kurt Cobain

topic: People, Labels, Firsts

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

- Lasse Hallstrom

topic: Kids, Feelings, Labels

If you gotta label me, label me proud.

- Lee Brice

topic: Labels, Proud

I don't get involved in record label politics.

- Leona Lewis

topic: Labels, Records, Get Involved

I didn't tour Europe, because I didn't have any label support

- Lita Ford

topic: Europe, Support, Labels

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

- Lucy Calkins

topic: Education, Writing, Labels

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

- Luther Campbell

topic: Adults, Labels, Who You Know

Chase God's heart today. Christianity has got to be more than a label, a lingo, and a lifestyle.

- Lysa TerKeurst

topic: Heart, Labels, Today

Having God as an identity marker is nothing but a label, a language, and a lifestyle. I'm a Christian. I talk like one. I act like one. But having God as an identity changer is so much more. It's lavish abandon to who God is and who He's made me to be. Holding nothing back!

- Lysa TerKeurst

topic: Christian, Identity, Labels, Markers

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

- Macklemore

topic: Crumbling, Labels, Unconventional

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

- Marco Rubio

topic: Labels, Accepting, Conservatism

American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

- Marcus Garvey

topic: People, Progress, Labels, Stockholm, Suffragists

My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

- Mario Batali

topic: Christmas, Giving, Labels, Vat

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

- Marion Nestle

topic: Labels, Incentives, Fats

The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.

- Marion Nestle

topic: Believe, Government, Labels, General Public

I'm not sure I would label it a 'survivor,'" said Iko, her sensor darkening with disgust. "It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.

- Marissa Meyer

topic: Labels, Looks, Rotting, Darkening, Sensors

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

- Mark Hyman, M.D.

source: FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Sep 11, 2012

topic: Advice, Firsts, Labels

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

- Mark McGrath

topic: Simple, Want, Labels

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

- Mark Twain

topic: Drinking, Wine, Labels

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

topic: Feelings, Labels, Demand

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

- Mary Chapin Carpenter

topic: Jobs, Labels, Stylist

I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.

- Mary J. Blige

topic: Thinking, Done, Labels

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

- Matt Damon

topic: Trying, Dodge, Labels

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

- Matt Drudge

source: Q & A at the Washington Press Club, delivered 2 June 1998

topic: Thinking, Gossip, Labels

Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

- Matthew Sweet

topic: Creativity, Giving, Labels

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

- Matthew Sweet

topic: Waiting, Labels, Records, Record Labels

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

- Maureen Duffy

topic: People, Labels, Patterns, Imposition

Drink wine, not labels.

- Maynard Amerine

topic: Wine, Labels, Drink