Labels Quotes

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

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.

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

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.

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

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