A Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

Once you label me you negate me.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Wisdom Label Me Once

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Soren Kierkegaard
Danish - Philosopher
May 5, 1813 - November 11, 1855

If you label me, you negate me?

Wayne Campbell

When I was younger, coming up in this industry, I was 17, 18 years old. You couldn't tell me Beyonce wasn't my friend. You couldn't tell me that Janet Jackson wasn't my girl. You couldn't tell me that once I signed to my label that me and J.Lo weren't going to have tea in L.A.

Lil Mama

When you're young and you're comin' up, and you dream of gettin' this record deal, and then you actually get it, and, you know, its apples and oranges from everything that you pictured. The line was pretty self-explanatory to me: once I got in my major label agreement, I definitely couldn't deal with it. It was drivin' me crazy, givin' me gray hairs at an early age.

Joe Budden

If you gotta label me, label me proud.

Lee Brice

Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again.

Dylan McDermott

I had recorded a song 'If You Need Me' for the Correc-Tone label, but it was a small label and distribution was a problem.

Wilson Pickett

Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it.

Barbara Gittings

National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, 'Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!'

Bjork

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.

Teena Marie

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

I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be watered-down. Labels were always asking me to do this or do that, saying that I was lacking something. And every time, I did it the next year. Singles? Radio spins? I showed 'em.

Keak da Sneak

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

Audre Lorde

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

John Irving

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

For quite a while I called myself a workaholic. I was proud of that label. Then one day it hit me; a workaholic is a label for an unproductive person.