Mtv Quotes

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

  Dov Davidoff

  Women, Poverty, Young

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• I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.

  Phil Anselmo

  Real, Metal Fans, Want

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I'm a junkie for it.

  Sebastian Bach

  Watches, Junkie

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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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• 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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• I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Stuff, Worldly, Meaningless

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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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• 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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• 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

  Agency, Video, Advertising

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• 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

  Film, This Is Me, Said

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com.

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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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• NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.

  Rob Zombie

  Running, Mean, Kissing

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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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• 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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• 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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• I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

  Nafisa Joseph

  Acting, Want, Very Happy

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

  John Frusciante

  Want, Radio

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