Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management that basically has everyone but doesn't have time for anyone. I didn't win 'Idol' - I was seventh. I don't do anything how everybody else does it.
The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.
There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.
I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.
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.
I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.
People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.
I give credit to my team. I have dedicated people from my label, my fans, and people at these companies that believe in me.
I was more comfortable with guys growing up, but now I find myself more comfortable in my own skin and open to people, regardless of their gender or popularity or any other label, as a result.
It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.
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.
Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
People label you the way they know you best.
I didn't think of myself as writing 'cli-fi,' but I'll take the label. I'll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories.
There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.
You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.
I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.
The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.
Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.
But I'm real conscious about what I do. I don't care what the label is. I'm looking at the outcome of it.
It could be hectic sometimes when you're being an artist and running a label at the same time. But there are times when you just have to say that this my time period to work on my stuff, and then you say this is the time to concentrate on my artists.
I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.
They say I'm the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me.
The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.
You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.
All of my songwriting success happened within a four month time span, and my record label deal happened within the next three months.
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.
People who label themselves as 'realists' are usually accurate - they see to the real edge of what they know, understand, or believe. At best, these folks tend to be caring worriers.
I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.
If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that.
Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
