Labels Quotes - Page 26

• 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.

  Chuck D

  Artist, Jam, Records

  "Chuck D: A 'Hip Hop God' Speaks". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

  Darius Rucker

  School, Kids, Worry

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

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• Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

  Darius Rucker

  People, Records, Care

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

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• You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Ridiculous

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• I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.

  James Iha

  Mean, Sound, Band

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• For Nirvana, putting out their first major-label record was like getting into a new car. But the runaway success was like suddenly discovering that the car was a Ferrari and the accelerator pedal was Krazy Glued to the floorboard.

  Michael Azerrad

  Car, Ferrari, Records

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• My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me.

  Michelle Branch

  Keys, Jeans, Style

  "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.

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• My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.

  Solomon Burke

  Ideas, Soul, Together

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• 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.

  2 Chainz

  Get Money, Type, Projects

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed of that. I think I'm the kind of artist that's meant to be on a major label because my music is different.

  Jon Crosby

  Thinking, Artist, Numbers

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• I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.

  P. Chidambaram

  Thinking, Should, Budgets

  "Q&A With Finance Minister Chidambaram". Interview with Amol Sharma, Paul Beckett, blogs.wsj.com. October 8, 2012.

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• [The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, People, Suffering

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, Writing, Fiction

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Views, People

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• The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.

  Kina Grannis

  Important, Way, Made

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview with Cosmo Girl, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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• The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

  Joyce Cary

  Real, Knowing Who You Are, Hiding

  Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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• It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Artist, Thinking, Impact

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• And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Song, Artist, Fans

  "Steve Jobs Remembered by Edgar Bronfman Jr., Martin Bandier and Other Executives" by Ed Christman, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Artist, Roles, Records

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• I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.

  Felicity Jones

  Cutting, Shopping, Clothes

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• My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

  Betsey Johnson

  Customers

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• So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure'.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Government, Long, Employee

  "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road". www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Kings, Party

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• Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self, Culture, Cottages

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• Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

  Joel Madden

  People, Mind, Facts

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