Labels Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Mayors of New York have been elected not because of their party label, but because of their philosophy and their approach overall, and that has been since time immemoriam in New York, that people are not party-oriented in New York.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Philosophy, Party

  "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview with Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• It was a really fun idea to have a fashion label with my sister but I don't have an awful lot of time for it because my first love and job is to be an actress.

  Sienna Miller

  Fashion, Jobs, Fun

  "Sienna Miller says she's changed her ways and she's happy to be single now". www.mirror.co.uk. August 03, 2009.

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• They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.

  Teena Marie

  Writing, Artist, Creative

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• I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

  David Nail

  Country, Song, Long

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• 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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