#labels

'Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#anyone #artist #believed #clown #comes

I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#before #believe #built #clown #coming

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels. ↗

— Billy Sherwood

#bad #days #good #good and bad #i

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine. ↗

— John Shirley

#artists #born #categories #confuse #entertain

I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#available #benefit #both #concerts #did

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. ↗

— Patti Smith

#labels #resistant #traditionally

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#bottled #essence #labels #names #our

What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.' ↗

— David R. Brower

#doing #even #hide #instance #labels

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#labels #age

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught. ↗

— Erin Gruwell

#labels #perspective #pride #race #freedom