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I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv. -- John Frusciante
I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV. -- Nina Blackwood
I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat. -- Kirsten Dunst
My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love. -- Cat Deeley
Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits. -- Pink
I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time. -- Nina Blackwood
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places. -- Tabitha Soren
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
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. -- Tara Reid
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
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
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
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. -- David Lee Roth
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
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
MTV has always been about redefining itself. -- Martha Quinn
God bless pop music and God bless MTV. -- Lady Gaga
MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken! -- Lewis Black
MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever. -- Donald Barthelme
I got a PBS mind in an MTV world. -- Jimmy Buffett
You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation. -- Alexandra Patsavas
MTV has turned more young women into whores than poverty. -- Dov Davidoff
The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.' -- Ridley Scott
I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft. -- Christopher Cross
MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough -- Dan Fogelberg
MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough. -- Dan Fogelberg
At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. -- Prince
He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists. -- Spike Lee
Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be... -- Jadakiss
If you're an MTV fan, you like all the stuff that's on MTV. -- Judy McGrath
I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless. -- Stephen Baldwin
Today, MTV doesn't play videos anymore, but YouTube certainly has become the next MTV. -- Christopher Bollen
I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I'm a junkie for it. -- Sebastian Bach
I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know? -- Crystal Reed
Your muse ain't singin' on your MTV? Can't even see him on your HD TV? -- David Mutti Clark
I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids. -- Tom Freston
No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots. -- Shirley Manson
Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me. -- Trent Reznor
I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't. -- Joe Perry
I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me. -- George Lois
I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV. -- Leonard Slatkin
MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with. -- Nick Rhodes
Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports. -- Eric Schlosser
I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis. -- Nelly
Every artist obviously wants to sell a million records and do the MTV cribs thing, but I'm realistic. -- JD Era
My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV. -- Damon Albarn
MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna. -- Carson Daly
I've had a relationship, a good relationship, with MTV for a long time, and I'd like to maintain that. -- Nia Peeples
MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world. -- Karlie Kloss
I go to the movies, and I watch MTV and the Disney Channel. I admit I like 'Hannah Montana.' -- Lexi Thompson
Remember, do the things that you fucking believe in, alright? This is what it's all about right now. [MTV Awards 2005] -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream. -- Pauly Shore
I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content. -- Nafisa Joseph
I barely ever watch TV, but when I do, I usually only watch MTV shows, like 'The Real World Sydney.' -- Ryan Sheckler
When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform. -- Victoria Justice
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
Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists. -- Mark Mothersbaugh
I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about. -- Ozzy Osbourne
I read that MTV's Real World got 40,000 applications. That's amazing, such an even number. You would have thought it would be 40,008. -- Mitch Hedberg
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
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
It's me! It's me! It's always me! [Darren when asked who smelled so good at the MTV Live interview in New York] -- Darren Hayes
I am honoured that my fans worked so hard to help me win Best Act Ever at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards. -- Rick Astley
You'd think when you saw my old MTV stuff that I was always drunk and high and all that stuff. I wasn't. -- Pauly Shore
It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore. -- M.I.A.
MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough. -- Ozzy Osbourne
MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure. -- Don Cornelius
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
You begin to understand, as a filmmaker, that there are different ways of approaching things. Everything doesn't have to be quick cut, like MTV. -- Peter Webber
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
Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike... -- Rebel Wilson
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 Patrick Morrissey
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 Patrick Morrissey
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. -- Mike Judge
I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that? -- Sebastian Bach
People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*! -- Mat McNerney
When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to try to touch you. -- Kerri Kasem
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
MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the effect of television in general? -- Ann Powers
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
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
My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't care what MTV says you are.". -- Pete Wentz
I was trying to think of a word that was not offensive. Yeah, Harry [Elfont] is right - it is kind of a different MTV for sure. -- Deborah Kaplan
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
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
I watched the MTV Video Music Awards every year, telling myself that one day I'm going to be there, and it's like, finally - I made it! -- Christina Aguilera
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
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
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
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
It feels like a totally different MTV now.Now they have all their own original series, and people are talking about going back to music now? It's all original programming. -- Harry Elfont
Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it like it was yesterday. -- Roopal Patel
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
I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show. -- Carly Schroeder
During The Hills, we were not allowed to wear outfits twice, so I asked [MTV] to supply me with a wardrobe, but apparently I had to buy it all myself. -- Heidi Montag
I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into. -- J. Robbins
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
My first real break was when my college sketch troupe, The State, was asked to contribute pieces for a new MTV show called 'You Wrote It, You Watch It.' -- Michael Ian Black
MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously. -- Megan Alexander
I preferred MTV as it used to be when it was about the music - I don't like it that now they just have reality shows. Reality TV rots people's brains. -- Georgia May Jagger
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
My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted. -- Chris Rock
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
At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better. -- Sumner Redstone
I found out a lot of stuff through MTV, and I didn't even have cable, I just saw it at friends' houses. But my culture in junior high was totally influenced by it. -- Win Butler
MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended -- including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL. -- Janet Jackson
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
To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film [ "Josie and the Pussycats" ], and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it. -- Deborah Kaplan
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

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