Labels Quotes - Page 8

• I just have so much love for my record label.

  Katy Perry

  Records, Record Labels, Much Love

  "Katy Perry on 'Wide Awake,' Film Aspirations and the 'Part of Me' DVD Release (Q&A)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 5, 2012.

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• I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.

  Katy Perry

  Home, Amy, Way

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• At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

  Katy Perry

  Block, Artist, Female

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• I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.

  Pink

  Underdog, Felt, Comfortable

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• A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don't snicker: Would you ever say, 'Nothing has gone wrong yet' without looking for wood to knock?

  Steven Pinker

  Prayer, Believe, Thinking

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• I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Thinking, Squash, Trying

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• With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Artist, Legacy, Needs

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• When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

  Jenni Rivera

  Mother, Artist, Doors

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• I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.

  Kid Rock

  Kids, Independent, House

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• How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

  Marco Rubio

  Progressive, Come Up, Insurance Companies

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• My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

  Howard Schultz

  Mother, Company You Keep, Age

  "Starbucks boss: we're not all froth". Interview with Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2009.

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• I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

  Gene Simmons

  Artist, Israel, America

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2002.

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• If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!

  Patti Smith

  Song, Want, Ifs

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• My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

  Arlen Specter

  Party, Independent, Tenure

  "Specter: A Democrat, and in between, a Republican", www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2011.

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• I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Records, Murphy, My Friends

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• Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Average, Impact

  "Apple: What Happens Now?". www.newyorker.com. August 24, 2011.

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• The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.

  James Surowiecki

  Opportunity, Apples, Google

  "Groupon Clipping". www.newyorker.com. December 20 & 27, 2010.

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• I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

  Taylor Swift

  Independent, Decision, Guts

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• I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Records, Made

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• A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

  Taylor Swift

  School, People, Rejection

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• I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Song, Years

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• When I was a child, my behavior was far from being what most people would label 'intelligent.' It was often limited, repetitive and anti-social. I could not do many of the things that most people take for granted, such as looking someone in the eye or deciphering a person's body language, and only acquired these skills with much effort over time.

  Daniel Tammet

  Children, Eye, Intelligent

  "Inside the Savant Mind: Tips for Thinking from an Extraordinary Thinker". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Love, Heart, Thinking

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• I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

  Steve Vai

  Independent, Artist, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.

  Steve Vai

  Commitment, Artist, Breathing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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