Mtv Quotes

• MTV has turned more young women into whores than poverty.

  Dov Davidoff

  Women, Poverty, Young

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• I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young, every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

  Quincy Jones

  Night, People, Band

  "Grammy Legend Award". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

  Robert Morgan

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• 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

  Radio, Great Things, Wells

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• The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

  Penn Jillette

  People, Tone, Use

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Tunes, Realizing, Episodes

  "Undercover Brother". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. June 4, 2002.

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• I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Awards, Popcorn, Looks

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• MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

  Carson Daly

  Training, Interviews

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• 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

  Country, Bridges, Ideas

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• Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

  Martha Quinn

  Mom, Clueless, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

  Christopher Cross

  Thinking, Crafts, Songwriting

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• 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

  Personality, Albums, Needs

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• You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.

  Peter Bogdanovich

  Movie, Inspiring, Real

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• It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

  Josh Schwartz

  Thinking, Age, Radio

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• I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.

  Pauly Shore

  Unique, Cameras, Location

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• I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

  John Frusciante

  Want, Radio

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• I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.

  Nina Blackwood

  Spinal Tap, Film, My Time

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• You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

  Tabitha Soren

  Years, News, Research

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• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough

  Dan Fogelberg

  Hips, Enough, Groovy

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• 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

  Girl, Creativity, Watches

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

  Tabitha Soren

  Writing, Air, People

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• At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.

  Tabitha Soren

  Nice, News Stories, Color

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• At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.

  Tabitha Soren

  People, Interesting, Trying

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• It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying 'ButtHead.' People tried to avoid it too.

  Mike Judge

  People, Calling, Lawyer

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• I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.

  Nina Blackwood

  People, Three, Video

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