Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

Denzel Washington

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

Alan Light

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

Betty Wright

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

It's a whole piece of life on this label saying, This was for the very well-to-do.

I'd rather be on a label that understands us and allows us to be a bit odd.

Taryn Manning

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

Kate Winslet

As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.

Buzz Osborne

I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.

Brian Setzer

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.

Tift Merritt

When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.

Aimee Mann

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

K'naan

I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

Diana Ross

I have never gotten into the label thing.

Brian McKnight

The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this.

Adam Jones

We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.

Pat Brown

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.

There's no such thing as mid-majors anymore. Throw that label away.

Doris Lessing

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

Dalai Lama

Furthermore, I shall explain the nature of dharmata: Such a nature as this cannot be determined to be any one thing. So however you label it, that is how it appears.

Amber Heard

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

Chuck D.

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

Conor Oberst

The only thing major labels can really offer is money.

Anais Nin

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

Talib Kweli

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

Tom Wolfe

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

Tim McGraw

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.

Sonia Sotomayor

I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.

Tom Felton

I don't like to label films with a genre.

Spike Jonze

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

Michael Patrick King

The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.

Skeet Ulrich

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

I can't put labels ? on these materials,