Personally I think people's labels are terribly unhelpful because they enable you to dismiss things.
Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.
The labels are not getting the returns they want from their PR. Plus, for every Taylor Swift there are a hundred thousand nobodies out there who are probably making better music. Self-releasing is the only way to go.
You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].
You can survive without a label. . . matter a fact, you're better off without one!
Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.
American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.
All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.
It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.
Any respectable artist has really given up on a label because the labels are still kidding themselves that the only way to go is to sign these big names like Lady Gaga and expect to make gazillions.
I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.
Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.
I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.
When a label is throwing money at you, you have to recoup it.
I didn't tour Europe, because I didn't have any label support
It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan
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.
The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.
Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.
When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.