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Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'
We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.
If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.
You rarely get money out of labels, except for when they open up a budget for a project. Other than that, it's a do-or-die type thing.
I was talking to different labels: Columbia, RCA , Epic. I decided not to sign with Epic even after L.A. Reid offered me a crazy deal.
There were so many different labels coming to me and they just didn't seem right, but 300... they wanted me bad. It felt like a family.
I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.
Don't identify yourself with labels and brands and have to buy every cute thing you see. Invest in the things that will grow in equity.
Major labels don't want to take chances on cooler, indie kind of things. People only know, unfortunately, what they're being spoon-fed.
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.
We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.
There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans.
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.
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.
Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.
We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.
The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness.
The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
I completely understand why labels would be a little bit hesitant to sign somebody coming off of a television show, in their first glance.
I have so many plans! Sometimes it's hard to keep up because at this point it's just been me and the little bit of help my label gives me.
I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.
National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, 'Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!'
I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.
Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.
You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
The only label I would choose for myself is Christian, but if you pushed me and you say, 'What sort of Christian are you?' I'm an Anglican.
Running a label in 2013, you don't do it for any financial purpose, you do it for all the amazing creative aspects of what you can achieve.
The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.
We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.
It's not an uncommon event for artists and labels to part ways - Patty Loveless, Vince Gill both did - and it often happens for the better.
It's a very generational thing: I am not interested in labels. I am who I am. I will love who I love, and that's the way it is going to be.
Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
A lot of people have tried to put labels on me, but right now I'm focused on being Kristi Noem and getting my message out to South Dakotans.
If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.
Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it.
There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists cant. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
We were selling out venues, not just in London but also major cities in France and Germany before labels had even noticed what we were doing.
If there's any profit to be had in Nashville-Underground, it's very long term. We're not about money, which gives us an edge over the labels.
I'm a brown-skinned Indian immigrant, low-caste untouchable - I don't know how many labels you want to put on me - who's fought all his life.
There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
I don't like labels necessarily because a label doesn't mean very much. But when it comes to being conservative, I happen to be conservative.
I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.
I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.
There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster.
I didn't expect major labels would embrace MySpace, and the original idea for music on the site was the unsigned bands, the independent bands.
I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.
I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry.'
Record labels and producers are not looking to change you: they are looking to make a star. And what they might think is a star may not be you.