100+ Mtv Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Interview: Terry Crews on ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ superpowers and working with Miss Piggy". Interview With Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. September 27, 2014.

topic: Awards, Mtv, Missing

Maybe it's because I grew up during the MTV generation, but to me a perfect song is one I can imagine a music video to, a song that can take you into a dream.

- Dan Chaon

source: Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

topic: Dream, Song, Mtv

Making a good music video isn't easy. If it were, MTV would still be showing them instead of '16 and Pregnant,' which I assume is shot exclusively in Utah.

- Daniel Tosh

topic: Utah, Mtv, Video

With MTV in the '80s, you made your album but then you needed to use any money you made to create a video - instead of being able to use that money to pay for you and your band to live on while you wrote new songs. So MTV upped the ante of looking for one hit. Conceptual bands who didn't have a hit were going to lose.

- Mark Mothersbaugh

source: Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

topic: Song, Mtv, Albums, New Songs

Before MTV, if you put out an album that sold 50,000 copies, your band could afford not to have day jobs for a while. That meant you could stick around, put out another album or two. Maybe it would be the second or third album where you'd make the statement you'd been trying to make all along.

- Mark Mothersbaugh

source: Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 1, 2005.

topic: Jobs, Mtv, Two

I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in the show anymore because there I was.

- Anne Hathaway

source: Interview with Chelsea Handler, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.

topic: Mtv, Watches, Saws, Snooki, Escapists

People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."

- David Bowie

source: Source: ca.complex.com

topic: Mtv, People, Guy, Turn-on

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

- David Bowie

source: "In 1983, David Bowie confronted MTV for refusing to play black artists' videos". Interview with Mark Goodman, www.businessinsider.com. January 11, 2016.

topic: Artist, Mtv, Black

We have the State Department working together with Google, MTV, MSNBC, Facebook, all of these - all of these giant corporations. Google now has two executives that we know of that were charged to help this revolution.

- Glenn Beck

source: "Beck Isn't Sure If His Theory About Google, Egypt, State Department, And MTV Is 'Sinking In'". "The Glenn Beck Program", www.mediamatters.org. February 15, 2011.

topic: Mtv, Two, Google

I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kind of discovered the '80s when I was already older, maybe in college. And I continued to have this romantic obsession with all those films and there's this sound I hear in my head and it's kind of this bittersweet romantic, dark sound.

- Regina Spektor

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Dark, College, Mtv

What's most insidious about MTV is that it commodifies precisely those things that young people believe are subversive. In other words, subversity itself has become a commodity. It's all a way to trick young people into believing that there's something unique about what they do, but this is all completely a corporately designed maneuver.

- Todd Solondz

topic: Believe, Unique, Mtv

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.

- Travis Barker

source: "Interview: Blink-182’s Travis Barker Says Tom Delonge Should ‘man Up And Quit’ Band" by Riley Rowe, archive.alternativenation.net. March 3, 2015.

topic: Rocks, Mtv, Goes On

I turned down a lot of reality shows in the past, but MTV, back in the day, was just the coolest with Cribs to Pimp My Ride.

- Tyga

source: "ManCrushMonday: Tyga Wants You to Know There's A Lot More to Him Than Kylie Jenner". Interview with Erica Gonzales, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 30, 2016.

topic: Past, Reality, Mtv

The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-water mark of bro culture, nothing can ever top the MTV series 'Bromance,' with Brody Jenner and his search for a new BFF.

- Rob Sheffield

topic: Bff, Mtv, Names, Bromance, Bros

Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it's just because they love doing it and they love each other and that's the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV.

- Ben Gibbard

topic: Thinking, Mtv, Play, Good Bands

I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I'd find myself figuring out who New Kids On The Block were.

- Katy Perry

topic: Block, Kids, Mtv, Blocked

- Katy Perry

source: "Katy Perry (she kisses boys, too!)". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. January 5, 2010.

topic: Movie, School, Mtv

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in charge of what people see or hear are afraid. What you hear on top 40 or what you see on BET or MTV is not a fair representation of what is really going on...

- Mos Def

source: "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Mtv, Long

I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it.

- Jack Kirby

source: Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/1987.

topic: Mtv, Elements, Entertainment

On MTV, the dialogue can be a little darker, more interesting and edgy... the animation is just phenomenal. It's a CGI program that's doing all the animation.

- Neil Patrick Harris

topic: Mtv, Interesting, Littles

God bless pop music and God bless MTV.

- Lady Gaga

source: MTV Video Music Awards, 2010.

topic: Mtv, God Bless, Pops

My first job. I got fired from this MTV prank show, or I didn't make the cut of what ended up being, as we all know, Boiling Points. It was my first professional job and I was bragging.

- Nick Kroll

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Jobs, Cutting, Mtv, Boiling Point

Unfortunately, as far as the music is concerned, what defines relevance is whether you are on the radio or whether you are on the cover of a magazine or whether you're winning MTV awards, and so on and so forth.

- Larry Mullen, Jr.

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Winning, Mtv, Awards

I don't like MTV, and I don't like the culture that goes with it. It's OK in very small doses, maybe. Nevertheless, it's a social reality and has influenced how kids perceive things around them, the pace of life and the way people do things.

- Seymour Papert

source: "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

topic: Kids, Reality, Mtv, Pace Of Life

The fans like the idea we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following.

- James Hetfield

topic: Mtv, Ideas, Fans, Record Companies, Beaten Path

I did my first nude scene in Mildred Pierce, and that was absolutely terrifying, but it was for an important part of the film and for a reason, and it's incredibly powerful. It's not gratuitous. I think the stuff they show on MTV is so much worse.

- Evan Rachel Wood

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Mtv, Mildred, Mildred Pierce

And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.

- Shia LaBeouf

topic: Mtv, Personality, Albums

I was working as a staff writer at Rolling Stone. I had a friend who worked at MTV, and she called me and said, "They're looking for VJs for this new channel. Do you want to try out?" I had zero TV experience, but I thought, "Well, what the hay."