#label

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#conceal #i #i think #labels #like

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#good #i #labeled #look #regardless

No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which if followed into actual experience for only a moment are quickly left behind. Imperialism consolidated the mixture of cultures and identities on a global scale. But its worst and most paradoxical gift was to allow people to believe that they were only, mainly, exclusively, white, or Black, or Western, or Oriental. Yet just as human beings make their own history, they also make their cultures and ethnic identities. No one can deny the persisting continuities of long traditions, sustained habitations, national languages, and cultural geographies, but there seems no reason except fear and prejudice to keep insisting on their separation and distinctiveness, as if that was all human life was about. Survival in fact is about the connections between things; in Eliot’s phrase, reality cannot be deprived of the “other echoes [that] inhabit the garden.” It is more rewarding - and more difficult - to think concretely and sympathetically, contrapuntally, about others than only about “us.” But this also means not trying to rule others, not trying to classify them or put them in hierarchies, above all, not constantly reiterating how “our” culture or country is number one (or not number one, for that matter). ↗

— Edward W. Said

#culture #humanity #imperialism #labels #survival

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music. ↗

— Taylor Hanson

#hiring #know #labels #lot #more

We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal. ↗

— Phil Harris

#answer #any #ask #blue #bob

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band. ↗

— James Iha

#called #heavy #heavy music #i #kind

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand. ↗

— Adam Jones

#easy way #i #i think #just #labels

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label. ↗

— Norah Jones

#demos #done #get #gigs #i

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually. ↗

— Norah Jones

#because #cool #dress #feel #i

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#labels #logos #mine #noticing #now