Quotes About Label

I feel like the expectations have gone up. It's not a complaint, but it's a little intimidating. People are like, 'Oh, you're on Matador. It's kind of a legendary label - you're going to have to live up to all those other bands.' I guess it's not that explicit.

Because we are Nashville-based and predominately a country label, people obviously think of us in that way, and that's fine.

I used to love eating canned fruit. Once I learned how to read a food label, I learned that canned fruit is arguably the least healthy form of fruit consumption.

I feel like it's important for me to expand, to create my own label. With a label, I can just give someone the opportunity that I was given, you know? That's what it's all about, just helping.

Def Jam is the reason why I started a label.

'Nice' is not a common label for comedians, but it is for Canadians. I like it.

Jive is a good label, but they're R&B'ed out.

Before I was 'the captain' with the label - because essentially, that's all it is - I was a player, and before that, I was a fan of the game, fan of the team.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

I really don't want to put more than a couple of records out a year, and I think that makes sense - on an artistic level, but also for my label.

The big thing is I'm not with a major label. I've been independent since the get-go, and I've been very lucky to get some good advice on keeping hold of copyright and that kind of stuff.

That's the best thing about being with an indie label, it feels like a family. If it's a major label, they put so much pressure on every single.

Jimmy Iovine has been telling me since 2012 that I needed to start my own label with my own artists. This was when he first met me and 'Bandz a Make Her Dance' was first taking off.

You don't even know are we going to have a career? Are we going to be able to sell records? Are we going to have a label?

It's a great feeling being with a label that respects what I do.

We as label executives, we have to know the limitations of the artists.

It's more about the music and doing good shows than it is about our ethnicities. We're not trying to label ourselves as the all-around universal ethnic group. It's not a gimmick.

Neoconservatism' once had a real meaning - back in the 1970s. But the label has now become meaningless. With many of those who are described as neocons, including me, fleeing the Trumpified right, the term's sell-by date has passed.

I'm looking at EarDrummers like a boutique label, like an Interscope or a Def Jam.

If you're on an indie label, you're not getting enough money. And if you're on a major, you're not getting enough support.

In my first label Shrapnel Records I wasn't expected to do anything except the creative music that I wanted to do. I was my own boss, which is great.

I'd probably do something that involved music, a booking agent or working at a label, if not being an actual musician.

I was always doing an independent kind of move while I was still with a label. They just stamped it.

The business of a label is to make money - my business is to make music. I'm gonna get paid if I do it right.