#abe

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#controversy #crackpot #danger #expose #fear

They say I'm the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me. ↗

— Lil Wayne

#hottest #i #label #live #me

I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#advocate #believe #certainly #either #everything

A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows. ↗

— Gene Ween

#band #beaten #being #better #could

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal. ↗

— James Welch

#i #i think #insulting #labels #people

I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. ↗

— Paul Weller

#being #get #i #i do #just

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. ↗

— Timothy West

#classes #classical #elizabethan #how #live

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#another #attractive #came #elizabeth #planet

For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major. ↗

— Jack White

#away #bands #get #getting #i

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ↗

— Ryan White

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