Quotes about Labels

Labels are for cans, not people. Votes: 4

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. Votes: 4

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire. Votes: 4

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am. Votes: 4

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that. Votes: 4

Labels are for cans, not for people. Votes: 3

Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm Votes: 3

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive. Votes: 3

Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other. Votes: 3

Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins. Votes: 3

Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another. Votes: 3

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled. Votes: 3

Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you. Votes: 3

When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done Votes: 3

There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans. Votes: 3

I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video. Votes: 3

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula. Votes: 3

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine. Votes: 3

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects. Votes: 3

Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects. Votes: 3

Labels want to capture a certain market of kids and blah blah blah, and it's true, I just never think about that stuff. It's all part of a chain that's moving along, but this phase of music has to switch. Votes: 3

Labels fund things and have resources for you to use. But just because you sign doesn't mean you sign yourself away so they can then tell you what to do. You need to have a plan yourself before they do. Votes: 3

Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication. Votes: 3

A Name Is A Label, And As Soon As There Is A Label, The Ideas Disappear And Out Comes Label-Worship And Label-Bashing, And Instead Of Living By A Theme Of Ideas, People Begin Dying For Labels... And The Last Thing The World Needs Is Another Religion. Votes: 3

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. Votes: 2

If you label me, you negate me? Votes: 2

Once you label me you negate me. Votes: 2

Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you. Votes: 2

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. Votes: 2

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. Votes: 2

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. Votes: 2

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. Votes: 2

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand. Votes: 2

I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it. Votes: 2

Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want. Votes: 2

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me Votes: 2

I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do? Votes: 2

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. Votes: 2

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle. Votes: 2

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels. Votes: 2

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. Votes: 2

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul. Votes: 2

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. Votes: 2

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together. Votes: 2

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money. Votes: 2

I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic. Votes: 2

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression. Votes: 2

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food. Votes: 2

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. Votes: 2

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell. Votes: 2

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.' Votes: 2

People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels. Votes: 2

My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents. Votes: 2

We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in. Votes: 2

When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of the Jews. So the allegation of anti-Semitism is actually a cover for an intra-Jewish quarrel. Votes: 2

Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's. Votes: 2

I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself. Votes: 2

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.' Votes: 2

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. Votes: 2

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby. Votes: 2

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again. Votes: 2

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one. Votes: 2

All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that's the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Drink wine, not labels. Votes: 0

What labels me, negates me." Votes: 0

What labels me, negates me. Votes: 0

Satan labels you. God names you. Votes: 0

I don't use labels a lot. Votes: 0

I don't put labels on myself. Votes: 0

All labels are offensive in some way. Votes: 0

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment. Votes: 0

One thing is clear: Ron Paul defies labels. Votes: 0

People are too complicated to have simple labels. Votes: 0

The gross evil of our time defies all labels. Votes: 0

Break your bad labels instead of living in them. Votes: 0

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money. Votes: 0

I don't think labels are as important as results. Votes: 0

I've always ignored the labels people put on things. Votes: 0

I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels. Votes: 0

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names. Votes: 0

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes. Votes: 0

The only thing major labels can really offer is money. Votes: 0

The first act of insight is throw away the labels. Votes: 0

Take away all your labels and you are the Infinite Being. Votes: 0

She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof. Votes: 0

Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names. Votes: 0

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables Votes: 0

I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels. Votes: 0

God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage. Votes: 0

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing. Votes: 0

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die. Votes: 0

I think staying away from labels is what makes my films refreshing. Votes: 0

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are. Votes: 0

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band. Votes: 0

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own. Votes: 0

I've been DJing since before I could read the labels on the records. Votes: 0

Don't put labels on people. See them as people who Christ died for. Votes: 0

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me. Votes: 0

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels. Votes: 0

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off. Votes: 0

I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money. Votes: 0

Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that. Votes: 0

The means of control that record labels had vis-à-vis distribution no longer exist. Votes: 0

To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being. Votes: 0

Use Campaign link tagging labels all for specifying slight differences in content for split testing. Votes: 0

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels. Votes: 0

Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today. Votes: 0

Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired. Votes: 0

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels." Votes: 0

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion. Votes: 0

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. Votes: 0

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure. Votes: 0

I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels. Votes: 0

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music. Votes: 0

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. Votes: 0

I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996. Votes: 0

When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego. Votes: 0

I just do what I do because it feels right. Other people attach labels to that. Votes: 0

I'm recording another demo for another batch of record labels that we'll shop it around to. Votes: 0

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism. Votes: 0

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business. Votes: 0

My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly. Votes: 0

I always recommend people read nutrition labels so they know, for instance, how much fiber they're getting. Votes: 0

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini. Votes: 0

People really have to start being a smarter consumer, read labels, and understand what hidden sugars are. Votes: 0

In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market. Votes: 0

Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that! Votes: 0

I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels. Votes: 0

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people. Votes: 0

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town. Votes: 0

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels. Votes: 0

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals. Votes: 0

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format. Votes: 0

I've always been something these labels can't buy, especially if they tryna take a piece of my soul. Votes: 0

The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go. Votes: 0

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress. Votes: 0

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. Votes: 0

As consumers, we can buy organic and non-GMO verified products, so look out for those labels when shopping! Votes: 0

Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you. Votes: 0

Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting. Votes: 0

I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels. Votes: 0

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me. Votes: 0

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better. Votes: 0

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better. Votes: 0

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore. Votes: 0

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones. Votes: 0

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political. Votes: 0

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years. Votes: 0

Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security. Votes: 0

We aren't as concerned about the live aspect as other labels. The best live bands are the easiest to record. Votes: 0

Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross. Votes: 0

There are some things that you have to consider when using MySpace, and a lot of big labels don't do this. Votes: 0

We're getting caught up with labels: "Nudity: bad." It's not about "nudity: bad." It's about gratuitous oversexualization of children; it's complicated. Votes: 0

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us. Votes: 0

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will. Votes: 0

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. Votes: 0

Georgians aren't interested in labels or affiliation, they're interested in solutions. And that begins by making Washington smaller and America bigger! Votes: 0

Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists. Votes: 0

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing. Votes: 0

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self. Votes: 0

I think you've got to keep it simple, keep it fresh. Stay away from all that processed stuff, read the labels. Votes: 0

Sometimes letting go is simply changing the labels you place on an event. Looking at the same event with fresh eyes. Votes: 0

I hate labels because it should be just music. I don't see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It's music. Votes: 0

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation. Votes: 0

I'm much pickier about what I put in my body. I always read labels now, whereas before I didn't even think to. Votes: 0

We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels. Votes: 0

It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections. Votes: 0

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels. Votes: 0

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down. Votes: 0

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us. Votes: 0

The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed [of major labels]. The more people involved, the slower the pace. Votes: 0

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard. Votes: 0

Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it. Votes: 0

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often. Votes: 0

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing. Votes: 0

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels. Votes: 0

We are all warned to read labels. The salutary truth is that we shouldn't be eating anything that has a label on it! Votes: 0

People lost the capacity of using their brain. It's all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the labels. Votes: 0

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people. Votes: 0

When the focus becomes 'What would Jesus do?' instead of 'What has Jesus done?' the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter. Votes: 0

I think people think that labels can get you features more than you can get your own. I just doesn't work like that. Votes: 0

I don't like labels necessarily because a label doesn't mean very much. But when it comes to being conservative, I happen to be conservative. Votes: 0

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization. Votes: 0

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology. Votes: 0

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions. Votes: 0

What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions. Votes: 0

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place. Votes: 0

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't. Votes: 0

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place. Votes: 0

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn't understand what these instruments were meant to be doing Votes: 0

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions. Votes: 0

There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion. Votes: 0

I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society. Votes: 0

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work. Votes: 0

Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal. Votes: 0

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere. Votes: 0

You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism. Votes: 0

We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians. Votes: 0

I'm a big Urban Outfitters girl, and Forever 21 - I don't think labels make fashion. I think it's your own style, what you put together. Votes: 0

This American government has become very adept at attaching labels to people who defend themselves, so that the general population in America will condone their behavior. Votes: 0

I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything. Votes: 0

I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about. Votes: 0

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time. Votes: 0

Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive from thought and emotion. Votes: 0

I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads. Votes: 0

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A lot of people have tried to put labels on me, but right now I'm focused on being Kristi Noem and getting my message out to South Dakotans. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

Do not settle for labels that presume you will never heal. Believe in yourself. Find a tribe who understands and believes in you too. Don't ever give up. Votes: 0

The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it. Votes: 0

When the whole world is watching you, they create stories and give you labels that have nothing to do with you. It's almost impossible for you not to explode! Votes: 0

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water. Votes: 0

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Votes: 0

They were...well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard. Votes: 0

We strongly oppose warning labels on cigarette packs for several reasons: first and foremost, warning labels may improperly imply that it has been scientifically established that smoking causes disease Votes: 0

Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor blades, and good standing among your friends'. Votes: 0

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible. Votes: 0

I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words. Votes: 0

I hope one day it won't matter who you're in love with. Gender is just a word. LOVE is beautiful. labels are for assholes. don't ever stop being yourselves. Votes: 0

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards. Votes: 0

I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing. Votes: 0

There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster. Votes: 0

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend. Votes: 0

Accept all invitations to do a new thing. Dare not limit yourself. Move toward your wildest #"Ž dream , take the labels off your mind, and step boldly into your greatness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When our video of 'Smooth Criminal' came out, suddenly we started getting all kinds of offers. We were getting calls from TV shows like 'Ellen DeGeneres' and from record labels. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer. Votes: 0

I think when we stop putting labels and start worrying more about the performance, that's when you're able to cross over and make yourself a household name and go everywhere. Votes: 0

how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him! Votes: 0

The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've been offered things from alot of different labels and stuff like that, but it's just like, it has to be perfect. I'm not going to sign my life away. Votes: 0

We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff. Votes: 0

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that. Votes: 0

In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone". Votes: 0

It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman. Votes: 0

As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business. Votes: 0

You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't. Votes: 0

I've never been a fan of labels. I think its very easy to kind of look at somebody and just kind of throw a label on them 'They're crazy.' Votes: 0

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Forget trendy designer labels. Jeans, a sweater or a t-shirt worn under a jacket that seems welded to you. When it's just right, when you don't see the effort, it's irresistible. Votes: 0

Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run. Votes: 0

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality Votes: 0

Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run. Votes: 0

If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities. Votes: 0

I think bisexuality is frowned upon for a lot of different reasons. But I don't like any of those words. I don't like any of those labels. I think they're limiting. Votes: 0

The important thing is not to know who "I" is or what "I" is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels. Votes: 0

As I've gotten older there's just more awareness around what is good for my body internally, externally, physically. It's all about reading labels and being aware and conscious of what goes in. Votes: 0

The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's put big companies into completely reinventing their strategies. Votes: 0

We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do. Votes: 0

Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels. Votes: 0

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences. Votes: 0

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that. Votes: 0

Listen carefully to yourself. Listen to what you dislike, and you will find most of the imagery is what you have received and registered from other people. We ingest labels from others. Votes: 0

When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved. Votes: 0

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together. Votes: 0

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked. Votes: 0

I think Def Jam happened to be one of the labels that really didn't have a good grip on things that were going on. I'll say that - that's my political answer. Votes: 0

In historical events great men - so-called - are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels they have the least possible connexion with the event itself. Votes: 0

Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member. Votes: 0

Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered. Votes: 0

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me. Votes: 0

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason. Votes: 0

... humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels up to help you define the material-and your Self. Votes: 0

I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle. Votes: 0

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes. Votes: 0

The criticism usually goes only to the religious right. 'Bigots,' 'intolerant,' 'hateful' - those labels get slapped on quickly and usually when we are winning debates and scoring points against liberals. Votes: 0

The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling. Votes: 0

For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer. These days, it seems like everything is padded and comes with warning labels. Votes: 0

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was. Votes: 0

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound. Votes: 0

Randy Wittman told me not to shoot 3-pointers. That got me very uncomfortable. There were certain labels tagged on me very early in my career, spots on the floor where I felt uncomfortable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources. Votes: 0

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs. Votes: 0

Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story. Votes: 0

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it. Votes: 0

Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history. Votes: 0

When I was on the big labels, I never calculated what would make me sell more records. I just did what I did -no different than when I wrote songs for myself in high-school. Votes: 0

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that. Votes: 0

If people stop being interested it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song, Votes: 0

If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song. Votes: 0

Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances. Votes: 0

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached. Votes: 0

One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties. Votes: 0

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want. Votes: 0

I am excited to bring elements of my lifestyle to the masses with the Rich Gang, and with Lil Wayne to be able to share the feel of our labels with the YMCMB Apparel brand. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The hardest thing to do in this business is to still be around. When music changes, when labels' resources have dried up, it becomes harder and harder to continue to make a living at this. Votes: 0

Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves. Votes: 0

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything. Votes: 0

I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road. Votes: 0

From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it. Votes: 0

Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves. Votes: 0

Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing. Votes: 0