Quotes About Labels

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

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

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

I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels.

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

Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.

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.

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

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.

There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake.

I think we use a lot of words and labels when trying to describe people: ones with autism, ones without autism. In general, I think that labeling people is a major issue, and people don't understand the power of language.

You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.

They always like to put labels on me.

I never dress up too much on holiday, but I do spend money on good sandals from labels like Aquazzura.

I was very much not a follower of labels in school. If anything, I was labeled 'uncool.'

I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels.

I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?

To be very blunt, I am not really that concerned with what labels get associated with somebody.

I'm not - I'm not going to define people by labels: who's a real Republican, who's not a real Republican.

Labels are actually not to make us understand things better: they are actually to ostracise and discriminate that what does not belong to the majority.

I think it's harder for R&B to break in England because the radio and labels don't really know what to do with R&B music.

Labels are curators of taste, and the best ones know how to monetize what an artist is trying to do.

There are just as many dirt bags in independent music as there are in major labels.