Label Quotes

“I'm not a folk singer. I'm a singer who happens to be a folk.”

“I am not a minimalist, I am a maximalist.”

“I'm not an Abstract Expressionist, and I'm not a Pop artist.”

“I don't think there's any such thing as a 'jazz musician' or a 'classical musician.' I think there are just musicians.”

“I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal.”

“I resent being called a jazz drummer. I am a musician.”

“No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points.”

“The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes.”

“I think the word 'neoconservative' has been abused to the point where it's a meaningless epithet.”

“A name is a label, and when a man is given one, he is ended.”

“I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.”

“I don't like labels. But if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man.”

“I'm not a big fan of the 'Brat Pack' label. It's a label that was invented by a journalist and it's something that I don't think any of us are particularly fond of.”

“Any attempt to label an entire generation is unrewarding, and yet the generation which went through the last war... has been labeled the 'Silent Generation.'”

“I think of myself as an actor. The labels are mainly for other people to use.”

“I am not a beatnik. I am a Catholic.”

“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.”

“I don't think I'm a minimalist. I don't think I was a minimalist. I think I'm a classicist.”

“Pop is a dirty word. But so is 'indie.' So is 'alternative.'”

“I don't really know what 'art rock' is. It's just a label.”