Quotes and Sayings About Mtv
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In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!
-- Al Yankovic -
You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.
-- Alexandra Patsavas -
I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'
-- Anna Kendrick -
I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
-- Bam Margera -
A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought Id try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
-- Carson Daly -
MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
-- Carson Daly -
My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.
-- Cat Deeley -
I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.
-- Christopher Cross -
I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know?
-- Crystal Reed -
My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.
-- Damon Albarn -
MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough
-- Dan Fogelberg -
I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.
-- Daryl Hall -
I wouldn't say that I was ever a fan of MTV. I was a guy on MTV. I don't think I was ever in the demographic of people who watch MTV. I never really watched MTV, so I'm definitely not a fan of 'Jersey Shore' or anything.
-- David Giuntoli -
When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.
-- David Lee Roth -
I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying the music".
-- Demetri Martin -
When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.
-- Denis Leary -
MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.
-- Donald Barthelme -
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.
-- Graham Joyce -
We changed our rules. If a player does not have some sot of altercation on or off the court once each month, we fine him...The guys that are our top four scorers, each of them will be required once every two months to appear on MTV. The guys who shoot the worst free throws over a one-month period, next time we have a TV game they're required to look into the camera and beat their chests after they make a good play.
-- Gregg Popovich -
I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.
-- J. Robbins -
Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be...
-- Jadakiss -
MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended -- including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.
-- Janet Jackson -
I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.
-- Jello Biafra -
Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.
-- Jimmy Carl Black -
I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
-- Joe Perry -
For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
-- Joey Ramone -
I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.
-- John Frusciante -
Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.
-- John Lydon -
I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.
-- John Mellencamp -
It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.
-- Josh Groban
