"I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them."
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"The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real."
"It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there."
"For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels; these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification."
"Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?"
"Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band."
"I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor"."
"Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'"
"If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label."
"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."
"A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off."
"Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance."
"The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music."
"I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it."
"If you label me, you negate me?"
"You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label."
"I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively."
"Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time."
"Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle."
"You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system."