"I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day."
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"We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization."
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"Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth"."
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"The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling."
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"Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way."
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"Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals."
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"The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing."
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"I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one."
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"I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music."
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"I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors."
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"I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck."
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"I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things."
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"If you label it this, then it can't be that."
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"I really should come with a warning label."
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"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network."
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"There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes."
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"I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious."
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"Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me "Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?" And I say "Good God, I hope not!""
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"The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough."
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"We spotted Beyoncé, January Jones, Rihanna and Carey Mulligan wearing the label [Karen Walker]. I was ecstatic, but I'm just as thrilled to see interesting girls wearing our product everywhere. It's quite a buzz."
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