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].

Johnny Depp

They stick you with those names, those labels -- rebel or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

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.

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.

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.

Jamie Redknapp

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

Barry White

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

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.

Deepak Chopra

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

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.

Soren Kierkegaard

What labels me, negates me.

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.

Lee Brice

If you gotta label me, label me proud.

I can't put labels ? on these materials,

Christine Gregoire

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

Elvis Costello

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.