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

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

I think, more than anything, in times of crisis we should be shedding party labels.

The means of control that record labels had vis-à-vis distribution no longer exist.

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

I'm going to keep proving people wrong, whether it's my record label, other artists.

If I were to put labels on demonetization, it would be transparency and traceability.

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

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

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

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.

When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

I'm fortunate because people can't put a label on me, which I embrace wholeheartedly.

If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.

There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.

To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do?

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan

Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.

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

I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.

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

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired.

Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'

I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

For the most part, it's straight white men running these labels and publishing companies.

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

I'd like to work for as long as possible and form connections with the labels I work for.

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

I don't label myself one way or another. I love who I love; it's the person that matters.

In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market.

I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.

Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal.

I'm recording another demo for another batch of record labels that we'll shop it around to.

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

It is cool to have a label head that is also a songwriter, in a band, and produces records.

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

If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

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