Quotes About Labels

the Brat—Victoria to her second-grade teacher, Vicki to her mother, but the Brat to her father and in her heart—was

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

Diagnostic fads simply relabel patients that psychiatrists have always seen.

For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.

The Prisoner All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!

All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!

The gross evil of our time defies all labels.

Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds.

They are controlled, so manipulated. They are unhappy people, they are miserable people. They don't enjoy life. They are constantly tense and anxious. Do you call that human? And do you know why that happens? Only one reason: They identified with some label. They identified the "I" with their money or their job or their profession. That was their error.

Why is it so hard to transcend the identities assigned to us when we were young?

Dlaczego tak trudno siÄ™ uwolni? od to?samoÅ›ci, które nam przypisano, gdy byliÅ›my dzie?mi?

Girls might be girls, but not, I thought, borderline psychotics.

I don't agree with the way labels are set up. I don't agree that anyone should sign 360 deals or sign away their publishing or take most of the infrastructure that's included in a formal deal.

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

People called me the godmother of punk, but I never name myself anything.

When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.

Even myself, I believe that as an artist I should pursue more independent activities. If more artists believe in this and are active about it, they will be able to accomplish more on their own, without the influence of entertainment labels.

Sometimes America is so great because it brings all of us together, but sometimes it can be so limiting because it puts labels on things.

Sometimes those labels that the league puts on players aren't right.

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

I am used to jealousy and people putting me in a box and labeling me without really knowing me.

When I got to NYU, I had applied based on playing folk music, and they said, 'You're the banjo girl,' so I thought ,'OK, I'm the banjo girl.'

It won't change that I'm an Olympian if you call me a football player, and it won't change that I'm an NFL player if you call me a track and field athlete.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.