I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me
The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.
I don't like the intellectual label.
One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.
It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.
When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.
People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the bands existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. Im sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared.
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.
Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.
The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.
I don't put labels on myself.
Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.
I looked at my family and I said, "I've got a spouse. I've got three kids. There's no way I'm ever buying a music subscription service for the five of us. It's just not going to happen. " So we wanted to do something really great for families. . . It wasn't easy. We had to convince the labels it was in their best interests, too.
I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.
I think people think that labels can get you features more than you can get your own. I just doesn't work like that.
I'm much pickier about what I put in my body. I always read labels now, whereas before I didn't even think to.
My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.
What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
Artists should re-emphasize performance and de-emphasize recording. You always make more money if you have a healthy performing life than you will if you have even a moderately healthy recording life. Don't make recording the most important thing you do. Make performing the most important thing you do, and then you can make recordings and sell them at your shows, because record labels aren't going to be around to help you get on the radio stations, and the radio stations probably aren't going to play you anyway.