Best Label Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I have my own label and I'm my first artist.”

“I've started my own record label - Jeepney Music - and I want to put out my own stuff and also stuff by other Filipino artists.”

“I got out of the business because I went from being the biggest artist on my record label to someone they didn't even want to have around.”

“The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.”

“Doing stuff on my own terms and making a record without being signed to a label - I credit that all to my commercial work.”

“The 4Hunnid label is like a family.”

“Having my own label, I have to look at things in a realistic, bottom-line manner.”

“I'm tired of labels. This is my label right here: El Cucuy.”

“People think that a label is going to get you to the top, and of course they're going to get you to the top. That's what they're good for. They're giving you this money but you have to pay all that back.”

“I'd been doing my own thing, and making my own money; I wasn't built by a record label or the music industry, nor was I built by prominent artists that have given me co-signs.”

“I don't want the 'supersub' label or anything like that. I just want to come on and express myself and play the best I can.”

“I've never really turned to my dad for anything, I think out of fear of the label of nepotism.”

“The career high would be putting out a Kids of Widney High CD on my label, Ipecac Recordings.”

“I figured it out at a young age: I could meet as many young people online and try to form my own family or my own record label group.”

“One overlooked great 1980s rock n' roll band, maybe punk rock - they were on SST Records, same label as Black Flag - is this band called the Leaving Trains.”

“Obviously, for Geffen, if it wasn't for us, it's quite possible that bands like Nirvana or Beck would not be on the label.”

“I'm openly gay, and I've got a major label record deal in Nashville, and it happened when I was 42 years old. It's not supposed to happen that way.”

“Because we are Nashville-based and predominately a country label, people obviously think of us in that way, and that's fine.”

“Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready.”

“For too long, the producers of non-dairy beverages, such as almond and soy products, have unfairly benefited from the ability to label their products as milk.”

“I wouldn't be as comfortable with who I am if it had not been for Prince. I mean, my label 'Wondaland' would not exist without 'Paisley Park' coming before us.”

“The fashion industry may persist to label me as 'plus-size,' but I like to think of it as 'my size.'”

“I don't like labels, but if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man.”

“Even though my label is that of a beauty queen, I'm not going to limit myself to that, just because that's my title.”

“Jive is a good label, but they're R&B'ed out.”

“Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to start a record label.”

“You no longer have to have a big record label behind you and have to kowtow to the politics that enabled you to get there. You can be a phenomenal artist and put your stuff out there on YouTube and find yourself becoming a star.”

“Fashion wasn't a label back in the '70s. We made our own clothes because we had no money.”

“Can a label group by itself scale to make a sensible business? I don't think so.”

“I never thought I would get signed to a label.”

“I did not label myself 'plus size.' The fashion industry did.”

“I come from a Muslim family. The label 'Muslim' is one aspect of me, but it's not the only part of me.”

“I've always wanted to push someone who's not really known but has mad talent. I don't know if I'm going to do a publishing company or a record label, but I'm interested in pushing artists in any sense.”

“I used to work at a label. I used to be a publicist. I used to be at a management company.”

“Pucci was always my favorite brand when I was in college. It has a similar DNA as my label, both in the sexy, uplifting point of view and in the use of color and surface pattern.”

“I think, forever, I was trying to figure out maybe... what I am. But I don't think anyone should feel pressured to have any kind of label or tag on them. We should treat everybody the same... Me, I don't like to be put down to a specific thing. We're all human beings.”

“I'm not this bright-eyed 17-year-old that got signed to a label and is listening to all these suits tell them the best plan of action.”

“We really shouldn't be putting a label on size. Fashion is for all, and I think confidence and happiness is more important than dress labels.”

“I'll tell you where I stand on the issues, and then I'll let the pundits decide how to label me.”

“Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.”

“John Peel made his reputation with his radio show and his record label, Dandelion, by championing the underdog.”

“I don't believe any artist who says, 'I had to do that because DJs will tell me I can't play that music. I will lose my job.' Well, lose the job and create a new job. If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!”

“I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.”

“If you're making a film about a band or a songwriter or whomever, there's a publisher, there's a record label, and there are people who are vested interests in that film. But with back-up singers, because they did stuff for everybody, there's no one party that has any vested interest in seeing the story told.”

“Singing is my favorite thing to do. One day, I hope to get signed to a record label.”

“I've never conformed to what my record label has said and, yes, that has meant that it's been a long journey for me.”

“There was a moment, a few weeks after I signed, that it actually hit me. I was signed to a major label.”

“I was an average student. I wasn't any standout. I remember when people started to know who I was and the label offers, people started to get a little weird and be weird around me.”

“I really don't think we should label models as 'plus' or 'runway.'”

“I didn't suddenly become conservative. It was only the label that changed.”

“Before I'd even started doing music or having opportunities with my own music, I was studying production and business and stuff anyway. I knew there were so many jobs within the music industry - songwriting or session playing or working at a label - and I was really interested in how it all works.”

“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.”

“What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio.”

“My label, my team and I are always looking to get involved with positive things.”

“The people at my label are always endorsing what I say. They say, 'You see the truth, so speak it.' They believe in me. They respect my opinion. At least I have an opinion, and I'm not trying to play it safe. I don't go around saying, 'I think everyone is great, and the world is fantastic.' Everyone has opinions. They just don't say it.”

“I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.”

“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.”

“I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'”

“People label you the way they know you best.”

“I wear this label of a Christian filmmaker proudly.”

“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've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.”

“No matter what happens to us in life, we tend to think of it as 'good' or 'bad.' And most of us tend to use the 'bad' label three to 10 times as often as the 'good' label. And when we say something is bad, the odds grow overwhelming that we will experience it as such.”

“I don't get involved in record label politics.”

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

“The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.”

“After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.”

“Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.”

“Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.”

“I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.”

“In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.”

“Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.”

“Why does everyone need to have a label?”

“You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.”

“All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.”

“I think any label is bad. I'm more than a label.”

“I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'”

“A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.”

“I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.”

“As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.”

“You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.”

“I never solicited a major label and I certainly wouldn't now.”

“Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.”

“There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova.”

“I've always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.”

“The fashion industry might persist to label me as plus-sized, but I like to think of it as my-sized.”

“I miss how a record label can help spread the word that you have something out.”

“I want to create music that moves me, not just music that is going to get me famous or make someone at a label happy.”

“It would feel like a smack in the face to sign with any label outside of Dre's. He took a risk on me, and that means everything.”

“The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.”

“Whosoever has money has power. It's not about a label. If you have money tomorrow, you will be powerful.”

“I don't see myself ever being in a position where I need to sign to a label.”

“When I was 13, I was saying that I wanted to be signed to a label. I was begging my dad to get me signed with somebody.”

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

“It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.”

“I think I fit into any type of system because I don't really have a certain position. Sometimes people try and label me, but I don't look at myself as being locked into one position.”

“I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.”

“I started my own record label.”

“We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us.”

“I think the ladette culture was a label thing, and it was the nineties and it was Britpop and it was quite wild.”