“I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.” FirstsI CanMy OwnCareersFirst TimeLabels Author:Shelby Lynne
“In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.” FilmCareersDirectorsRefuseLabelsJournalistCopExesLeaving MeGangstersSerialsFilm Directors Author:Emraan Hashmi
“I think that women are often lumped into categories - single gals, or soccer moms, or career women, or women of a certain age. For some reason our society wants women to wear labels, and not only on their clothes.” ThinkingWantReasonAgeCertainCareersMomClothesLabelsSoccerOur SocietyCategoriesGalsCareer WomenSoccer Mom Author:Elizabeth Heyert
“A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.” WantHas BeensTwoLastsGivenMy OwnFictionCareersInfluenceScience FictionListsLabelsGenrePrizeMainstreamDissidentsCyberpunkManifestos Author:William Gibson
“Being independent is more of a mind state more than anything else. A lot of people don't understand that being an independent artist means being hands on with your career in every aspect - not being afraid to spend your own money and invest time in yourself. Although I'm affiliated with a major label, I still wake up every day with an independent mindset.” PeopleMindMeanStillsStatesHandsArtistCareersMajorsAspectWake UpIndependentMindsetLabelsBeing Afraid Author:Yo Gotti
“I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career, and I'm intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it'd be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.” IfsMy OwnCareersInvolvedAspectMusicalBetrayalReleaseLabelsMaking MoneyExtensions Author:Michael Gira
“In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself.” PeopleYearsFirstsTwoWantedCertainSoundBlackNaturalDarkCareersCuttingColorHairClothesRedLipsCommunicateLabelsTwo YearsRestraintLipstickHair Dye Author:Rihanna
“I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.” WayCareersBuildingAdultsBuiltIndependentRapLabelsEmpiresBeverages Author:E-40
“I've been on a major label for 14 years. I've always wanted as many people as possible to hear my music, and it definitely made sense for the majority of my career to be on a major label, on a distribution level, to be in people's faces and be out there, and have access to major labels' incredible machine, even though they have not understood or haven't been invested in what I was doing.” PeopleYearsMadeWantedFacesLevelsCareersHavensMajorsUnderstoodMachinesMajorityIncrediblesAccessLabelsDistribution Author:DJ Shadow
“I've had a very different career than a lot of other musicians. I went through the major labels. I was signed to two major labels and bands. I've toured with Aerosmith, and I've had records on the charts, songs in the movies. If you had checklist of things a person wants to accomplish in music...I've done a lot. And I don't mean that in an egotistical way; I never take it for granted. But you can't think outside the box unless you know what's in the box.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantMeanPersonsTwoDifferentDoneSongCareersRecordsBandMajorsMusicianBoxesAccomplishGrantedLabelsEgotisticalOutside The BoxThink Outside The BoxChecklistsAerosmith Author:Michael Angelo Batio