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"When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven't been very successful."
"It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, "This is who you are. This is what you are."
"My name is Ellen and I'm a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I've said it."
"In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist."
"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."
"One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes."
"So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff."
"She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof."
"Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm"
"Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again."
"When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things"
"Your only identity is I AM undefined and infinite. Any label you give yourself limits yourself."
"At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit."
"I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels."
"If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists."
"Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting."
"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."
"You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label]."
"If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you'll be able to figure out really easily what's good for you and what's bad."
"The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore."
