It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.
Courtney Love

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.
Ornette Coleman

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
John Burns

Labels are for cans, not people.
Anthony Rapp

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
Martina Navratilova

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.
Lee Konitz

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.
John Shirley

Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.
Bruce Dickinson

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.
Ian MacKaye

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).
Matthew Sweet

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.
Michael Stipe

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.
Angie Martinez

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.
John Zorn

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Logan P. Smith

People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I'm sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared.
Greg Ginn

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.
Jermaine Dupri

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

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Aneurin Bevan

This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.
Andy Taylor

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.
Willard Van Orman Quine