"I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go."
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"Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them."
"People label you the way they know you best."
"You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can't let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically."
"All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie."
"I don't like the intellectual label."
"I don't get involved in record label politics."
"The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label."
"Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today."
"Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label."
"I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out."
"The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go."
"I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself."
"Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects."
"The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you."
"Since Dominic's been sleeping with me, the mice have been trying various labels on him, looking for one that fits. My personal favorite was the week they spent calling him "the God of Absolutely Never Smiling, No, Not Ever."
"I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president."