Mtv Quotes

I grew up watching MTV, so it's very surreal to me to think that there might be someone out there watching MTV, looking at us the way I used to look at Davis Madonna and Duran Duran videos.

I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem.

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

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.

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

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.

Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.

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.

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

Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music.

To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night.

I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards.

It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.

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.

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.

No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.

MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has the money to do it. MTV is that for us.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn't get his video on MTV because he was considered to be 'urban.' The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I'm gone, after I'm dead.

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.

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.

So yeah, but from the show and as far as MTV I have a lot of friends, and from the challenges and the other shows, that I've met. I currently don't have any enemies that I know of.

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!

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