Labels Quotes - Page 22

• It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Atheist, Islam, Unfair

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• At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money.

  Greg Laswell

  Independent, Way, Figures

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• The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.

  Guy Oseary

  Independent, Perfect, Spirit

  "Madonna settles feud with Warner Music". The Associated Press, www.today.com. June 15, 2004.

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• The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.

  Guy Oseary

  Risk, Jam, Aspect

  "Meet the upstart new company that is changing the face of music" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2008.

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• I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

  Jim Parsons

  Fun, School, Average

  "Big Bang Theory: The Jim Parsons Interview". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. September 23, 2010.

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• There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

  Sean Parker

  Artist, Schemes, Brewing

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• You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

  Sean Parker

  Destiny, Records, Masters

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• So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

  Adam Rich

  Records, Pay, Stuff

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• If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Crackers, Boxes, Theory

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• There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Mother, Mistake, Thinking

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• I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

  Ali Smith

  Men, Thinking, Trying

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• Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.

  Emeli Sande

  Artist, Thinking, Next

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• I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.

  Emeli Sande

  Song, Believe, Artist

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• I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

  Emeli Sande

  Doors, Trying, Bangs

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• I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.

  Emeli Sande

  Believe, Doors, People

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• I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.

  Mark Skousen

  Tired, People, Political

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• The human field of perception is not the only band of perception. Nor is it necessarily the best; there is no such thing in infinity. Infinity does not label.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Perception

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• Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

  Matthew Sweet

  Creativity, Giving, Would Be

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• I would like to say when I turn the project over to the label that I have been successful. And that's truly the way I feel. But, in addition to the self-pride in 'making' a good album, to be honest, I'd love to have a hit record!

  Chely Wright

  Pride, Successful, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

  Criss Jami

  Artist, Being Different, Littles

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.67, Criss Jami

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• I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

  Shelby Lynne

  Careers, Firsts, First Time

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• I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

  Shelby Lynne

  Corporate

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• What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.

  Robin McKinley

  Children, Writing, Thinking

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• Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.

  James Morcan

  Genius, Freak, Students

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• Many of those in the medical fraternity instantly label treatments in the traditional, natural or holistic health fields as quackery. This word is even used to describe Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Indian Ayerveda, two medical systems which are far older than Western medicine and globally just as popular.

  James Morcan

  Two, Medicine, Chinese

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