Welcome to our collection of labels quotes! Labels play a significant role in our lives, often shaping how we perceive ourselves and others. Whether it’s the labels we give ourselves or the ones society assigns to us, they can carry immense power and influence. From labels that define our identities to those that categorize our abilities and limitations, the words we use to describe ourselves and others can profoundly impact our sense of self-worth and belonging.
In this compilation, we explore the diverse perspectives on labels, shedding light on their complexities and implications. From thought-provoking insights to humorous observations, these quotes offer a glimpse into the multifaceted nature of labels in our society. Join us as we delve into the world of labels, exploring their role in shaping our perceptions and understanding of the world around us. Discover the wisdom and wit encapsulated in these quotes, and consider how they resonate with your own experiences and beliefs.
Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren’t interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s. Ezra Taft Benson
Open your refrigerator, your freezer, your kitchen cupboards, and look at the labels on your food. You’ll find ‘natural flavor’ or ‘artificial flavor’ in just about every list of ingredients. The similarities between these two broad categories are far more significant than the differences. David Chang
The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. Doris Lessing
I never feel confined by gender, by labels, by expectations, by stereotypes. I’m free to be myself. Princess Nokia
I think that’s the problem in a lot of music. We’ve got these record labels. Teena Marie
Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It’s got labels on it – OAP, retirement – and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again. Julie Walters
I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby. Anne Hathaway
A lot of people ask me, ‘How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?’ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it. Taylor Swift
I’ve tried to avoid labels, but they always find you. Poppy Z. Brite
When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn’t understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge. Matthew Sweet
Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. Patti Smith
Even though we’re not the most punk rock band, the way we’ve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves. Brandon Thomas
Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security. Ezra Taft Benson
I’m sick of all these labels and these manufactured subdivisions of music that don’t even exist. And even though I’m pierced myself, I’m sick of everyone equating body piercing with musical courage. If you ask me, it takes a lot more than that. Jeff Buckley
I’ve learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra… I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs. Harry Connick, Jr.
I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic. Lana Del Rey
We’ll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on I guess. It’s not too early to start considering our options with other labels. Josh Silver
If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let’s discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority. Adam Grant
I started to read labels around age 18 or 19. I don’t buy things that don’t sound like food, and I’ve been that way all my life. I do go through phases, during which I eat meat for maybe three months then don’t. I do eat lots of vegetables. It’s the same with dairy – I’ll eat it then stop. Barbara Sukowa
I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to. John Updike
Putting labels on entire groups of people makes things much simpler. If all New Yorkers are pushy, or all politicians are dishonest, we don’t have to do the hard work of figuring out who’s who. Robert J. Waldinger
In a sense, the music business and I haven’t always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you’re hoping you’ll find someone who’ll help you get your work into the world. Annie Lennox
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. Willard Van Orman Quine
It’s a new era in fashion – there are no rules. It’s all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together. Alexander McQueen
We aren’t as concerned about the live aspect as other labels. The best live bands are the easiest to record. Greg Ginn
Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities – cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we’ve cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold – identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels. Neri Oxman
Those are the frustrations in this industry – the boxes and the labels, where they say, ‘You are this one thing and this is the only thing that makes you unique or viable. So just be trans. And here’s a stamp on your forehead and all your characters will be wearing a fake mustache and saying, ‘Dad, I want to wear pantyhose.’ Patti Harrison
And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don’t really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown – it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you. Fred Frith
We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it’s a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in. Armin van Buuren
I don’t put labels on myself. John Engler
People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band’s existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I’m sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared. Greg Ginn
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
I’m recording another demo for another batch of record labels that we’ll shop it around to. Ahmed Best
Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member. Bram Fischer
I’m tired of labels. This is my label right here: El Cucuy. Tony Ferguson
I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond – do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you’re not careful, like I wasn’t when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else’s ideas of who you are. B. D. Wong
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
If there is no God, the labels ‘good’ and ‘evil’ are merely opinions. They are substitutes for ‘I like it’ and ‘I don’t like it.’ They are not objective realities. Dennis Prager
I know there are some labels that put out music for art’s sake, but I don’t know which ones. Josh Homme
Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me. Skeet Ulrich
It’s a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don’t have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game. Courtney Love
I would largely attribute my identity – as it relates to music labels and corporate music giants – to Dave Chappelle and his relationship to and firm standing in Hollywood. Chance The Rapper
There’s a lot of big guys who can play-make. We put labels like, ‘Oh, he’s a point guard, he’s a center.’ But sometimes your center can play-make for you and not just be the center, boxing out for rebounds and playing in the post. Giannis Antetokounmpo
Major labels didn’t start showing up really until they smelled money, and that’s all they’re ever going to be attracted to is money-that’s the business they’re in- making money. Ian MacKaye
I’ve always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn’t get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes. Judy Holliday
If people have to put labels on me, I’d prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer. Joan Baez
More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don’t like my music (laughs). Matthew Sweet
I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together. You’re texting. You’re wondering what’s going on. There’s no definitions, there’s no labels. Elizabeth Meriwether
I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they’re going to hear, or won’t come for this reason. Chuck Mangione
I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don’t understand. Adam Jones
High school is all about hierarchies, labels, cliques – we are labeled and structured. Everyone goes through it, more or less. Skyler Samuels
I’m a brown-skinned Indian immigrant, low-caste untouchable – I don’t know how many labels you want to put on me – who’s fought all his life. Shiva Ayyadurai
I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: ‘not sexy,’ ‘not funny,’ ‘too intense,’ desperate.’ All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn’t a trace of my true self left. Naomi Watts
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me. Rosanna Arquette
We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town. Toby Keith
Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you’re providing delicious food with cleaner labels. Denise Morrison
A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music. Taylor Hanson
Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run. Tim Ferriss
You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don’t want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible. Mark McGrath
We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that’s really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff. Shane West
Island Records was the first record label to… acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me. Shawn Mendes
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. Aneurin Bevan
What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul. Billy Graham
It’s just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression. Ornette Coleman
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, ‘Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we’ll talk.’ Taylor Swift
Labels don’t mean anything to me. I’m trying to play as passionately as I’m able to. If they want to call that cool, that’s fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula. Lee Konitz
Embrace your colour, heritage, whatever you want, but don’t let it confine you. Just live without labels. Mustafa Ali
The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one. Eckhart Tolle
Labels don’t really impress, it’s the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire. Bryan Batt
I don’t think I’ve ever really been a science fiction writer. I’m closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can. Harlan Ellison
The Moody Blues were a blues band, so when we got discovered, we were taken to London. That’s where we started to make it. That’s where the record labels were. That’s where the action was. Denny Laine
I try not to name too many labels – not because it’s not cool, but because it starts getting political. Nelly
Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band. Bruce Dickinson
A lot of people have tried to put labels on me, but right now I’m focused on being Kristi Noem and getting my message out to South Dakotans. Kristi Noem
As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don’t. I don’t think the label I’m on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they’re gonna have to. Talib Kweli
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
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. Logan Pearsall Smith
I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video. Siouxsie Sioux
Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance. Adam Rich
I don’t like labels. For me, saying I’m transgender was just a thing to say because it’s what people want to label me as – a female, who’s a male. Trisha Paytas
Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. Martina Navratilova
If a magazine proudly labels itself ‘The Economist,’ you would expect that publication to understand the economic burdens of today’s youth. But when a tone-deaf writer at the magazine tweets an article asking ‘Why aren’t millennials buying diamonds,’ it pretty much sums up how oblivious some can be in matters they’re supposed to be experts in. Ana Kasparian
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
I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it. Jessica Simpson
Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins. Chirlane McCray
We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that. Geoffrey Holder
I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren’t that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn’t have any money to do anything. Dan Hicks
It’s all about communication and a dialogue between individuals – get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self. Matt Bomer
I wanted to stay independent because I figured there was no way I was going to be able to have control to create the type of music I want. I was basically ignoring a lot of labels. Lil Nas X
Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we’re not interested. Ian MacKaye
My feeling is that labels are for canned food… I am what I am – and I know what I am. Michael Stipe
All these labels and praises scare me. I am very simple, and I feel like a newcomer because I never stopped learning. Sridevi
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world ‘another Calcutta.’ Bharati Mukherjee
In those days the big U.S. labels didn’t have any particular interest in the Latin market. Ruben Blades
We are quick to stick labels on others – especially those who don’t fit in with the norm. ‘Harold Fry’ is about a broken marriage; ‘Perfect’ is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it. Rachel Joyce
I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce. Malcolm Wilson
Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle. Robert Morgan
I’m delighted about the track’s success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don’t think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs. Alan Parsons
I’ve always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food. Michael Stipe
What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon. Siouxsie Sioux