Mtv Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Fun, Pioneers, Saws

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• These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be.

  Vivian Campbell

  Song, Artist, Dna

  "DEF LEPPARD Guitarist: Music Piracy Is Not A Bad Thing For Bands Like Us". Interview with Dana Feldman, www.blabbermouth.net. June 30, 2011.

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• I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, "Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or MTV." I think 'Vice' is in that category now.

  Tom Freston

  Mean, Night, Thinking

  "Vice's Shane Smith and Tom Freston on Sending Dennis Rodman to North Korea for HBO". Interview with Eriq Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 12, 2013.

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• The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.

  Lou Reed

  Sports, Baby, Dad

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.296, Da Capo Press

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• I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Art, Media, Pbs

  Song: I Don't Know And I Don't Care, 1999

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• I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.

  Nelly

  Art, Media, Entertainment

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• I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials and voiceovers and stuff. My first job was on a pilot of that prank show called 'Boiling Points' on MTV.

  Nick Kroll

  Jobs, New York, Pilots

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.

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• The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

  Michel Gondry

  Song, Awards, People

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• You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.

  Alexandra Patsavas

  Generations, Firsts, Knows

  "Music Of The O.c.: Interview With Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. March 22, 2005.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Silly, Giving, Contests

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• If you listen to a song and get an image in your head, and then you go home and watch mtv and the image they're showing is the same as the one in your head, kill yourself. You're better off coming back as a lobster.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Song, Home

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• 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

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• 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

  Thinking, Shopping, Punk

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.

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• I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

  Mary J. Blige

  School, Cutting, Journey

  "Queen Mary". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I think that for the five-year-old watching MTV right now, Lady Gaga is going to be an iconic person. In 20 years, the people who are here and talking to journalists will be like, 'Oh Lady Gaga changed my life, Nicki Minaj changed my life.' They'll be saying who influenced them and it will be Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, artists like that.

  Beth Ditto

  Thinking, Artist, Talking

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• When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.

  Victoria Justice

  Band, Singers, Firsts

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• I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

  Sam Kinison

  Vote, Responsible, Register

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• I tore up my knee break dancing. I have no idea how that happened. Apparently these legs are meant for swimming, but not dancing. I was watching an MTV video, thinking, "I can do this." Definitely not. I heard a pop. I sat down and it blew up like a watermelon. I had to go to the hospital and get surgery.

  Ryan Lochte

  Swimming, Thinking, Ideas

  "Q&A with Golden Goggles winner Ryan Lochte". Interview with Brian Cazeneuve, www.si.com. November 23, 2010.

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• Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

  Steven Morrissey

  Long, Records, Radio

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• 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

  Bff, Names, Water

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• Yo I'm seventeen, already sniffin blow. I tell my friends its asthmary time I itch my throat, I got a new show for MTV, Pimp My Boat.

  Tyler, The Creator

  Blow, Pimp, Boat

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• Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be.

  Jadakiss

  Rap, Black, Enough

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• MTV has always been about redefining itself.

  Martha Quinn

  Redefining

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• MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken!

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Kfc

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