Labels Quotes - Page 29

• The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.

  Michael Patrick King

  Directors, Firsts, First Time

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• I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

  Alison Moyet

  Independent, Gold, Littles

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• There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists cant. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

  Sam Tsui

  Artist, Bucks, Radio

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• I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, Im kind of astonished because I think, This is completely normal. This is just how I am, its how Ive always been.

  Daphne Guinness

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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• Probably the label 'Jesus freak' is fine with me. Because I know who I am.

  Troy Polamalu

  Jesus, Who I Am, Freak

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• I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so its difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.

  Nigel Kennedy

  Thinking, People, Musician

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2010.

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• I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It's a great indie label and I listen to music all day. I meet people online and find out about the cool new music blogs.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Friday, Monday, Jobs

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• The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

  Danny Brown

  Want, Reason, Bigs

  "Danny Brown Town". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2012.

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• I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

  Shelby Lynne

  Running, Circles, Creating

  "Singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 29, 2010.

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• You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Couple, Heart, Phones

  "I like my own musical company". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 04, 2014.

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• The music business will be revitalized by musicians, not the labels or Live Nation. When the musicians decide to put music first, instead of money, the public will flock to the fruits and the scene will be healthy again.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Healthy, Musician, Fruit

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• Friends of friends had bands in college or in their early 20s and had a moment where they had some kind of interest from a record label or manager. It's always interesting how people handle those decisions and those moments.

  Noah Baumbach

  College, People, Interesting

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• Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative sense. If a therapy or treatment is anything more than a placebo, properly conducted double-blind trials, statistically analyzed, will eventually bring it through with flying colours. Many candidates for recognition as orthodox medicines fail the test and are summarily dropped. The alternative label should not (though, alas, it does) provide immunity from the same fate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Fate, Medicine, Flying

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• That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. Tie the label Homo sapiens even to a tiny piece of insensible embryonic tissue, and its life suddenly leaps to infinite, incomputable value.... Self-styled pro-lifers, and others that indulge in footling debates about exactly when in its development a foetus becomes human, exhibit the same discontinuous mentality. Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil.

  Richard Dawkins

  Self, Indulge In, Ties

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• Not everyone is the same. You can't label a person just because of what they do or what they've done.

  Common

  Done, Persons

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a whole system down for returning online shopping: a tape gun, a printer for return labels. That has replaced traditional window shopping in my life, as I've gotten busier.

  Mindy Kaling

  Gun, Window Shopping, Tape

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.

  Eddie Izzard

  Comedian, Well Known, Fine

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

  Mason Cooley

  Knowledge, World, Ifs

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• Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Away From Each Other

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fiction, Fantasy, Stuck

  Roosevelt Intermediate School, Westfield, NJ #3 Interview, lists.topica.com. March 23, 2005.

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• My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the 70s.

  Judd Apatow

  Brother, Grandfather, Albums

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• When people lose their jobs, they can either get another job or be entrepreneurs. In the music industry, a lot of people have attempted the latter by starting their own labels, but in the age of digital downloads, it's very difficult to succeed.

  Judd Apatow

  Jobs, People, Entrepreneur

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.

  Missy Elliot

  Artist, Order, Records

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.

  Riff Raff

  Rapper, Actors, Want

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2012.

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• Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Clever, Style, Buying

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