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A music video is so different to doing a movie. -- Rita Ora
I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video. -- Rick Springfield
Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it. -- G-Eazy
I'd like to be able to recall every J. Lo music video dance routine ever, naturally. -- Suki Waterhouse
I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic. -- Johnny Weir
My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music. -- Chance The Rapper
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song. -- Becky G
I like 'Glee' because I love all the singing. It's like an hour-long music video. Those kids are so talented, and I love 'The Glee Project'. -- Heather Dubrow
Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited. -- Michael Apted
My new music video, 'My Life' featuring Eminem and Adam Levine, the only person in the actual video who you can physically make out besides myself and Adam Levine is Andre Dirrell. -- Curtis Jackson
I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures. -- Tony Kaye
I have a music video I was in coming out for M83 for their song 'Claudia Lewis.' It's directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, and I play opposite Lily Collins. It's a pretty edgy intergalactic music video. -- Israel Broussard
There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is no music video I can think of apart from that one that really reaches you inside. -- Anton Corbijn
Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died. -- Perry Como
You get to actually see the music video on the TV in the pilot and we have the soundtrack playing at this big party. I thought that was sort of a cool moment, to actually have the A-Ha video is pretty cool. -- Will Estes
I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow. -- Becky G
The 'Work Hard, Play Hard' video shows how much a part of music the fans can really be. With the help of SanDisk, we were able to create the first-ever music video to be made using fan videos shot only from their mobile phones. -- Tiesto
My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools. -- Seamus Dever
All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before Michael Jackson, and there were music videos after Michael Jackson. He brought such a huge change in the marketing and positioning of the music video. -- Sonu Nigam
It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that. -- Blair Underwood
When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A. -- Allison Williams
Music videos are notoriously long, not fun, grueling. You are known there as a dancer and it's kind of sad because dancers, in a lot of ways, are under-appreciated and kind of under-respected when it come to that so they don't necessarily treat you in a nice way when you do a music video. -- Jenna Dewan
When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.' -- Vanessa Lengies
I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to L.A. when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video. -- Jacob Latimore
If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope. -- Nikki Reed
I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible. -- Jonah Hill
I'm not a huge big fan of music video. -- Quentin Tarantino
The heyday of video music was the mid 80's. -- Nina Blackwood
I did Hilary Duff's 'With Love' music video-slash-fragrance ad. -- Kellan Lutz
I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert. -- David Byrne
I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV. -- Nina Blackwood
Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director. -- Tamra Davis
Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games. -- J Allard
I recently saw Brooke Hogan's new music video, and I've got to say she looked hot. -- Randy Orton
I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music. -- Reba McEntire
I always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video. -- Volker Bertelmann
I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage. -- Keith Richards
Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together. -- Planningtorock
It's good Netiquette to manage music, video, and ebooks with cloud storage and mobile apps. NetworkEtiquette.net -- David Chiles
Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video. -- Raphael Saadiq
If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual. -- Melanie Martinez
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Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry. -- Ludacris
I love playing video games. I love listening to music. Just surfing the web. Facebook, Twitter, keeping in touch with people from home. -- Trey Burke
When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids. -- Prince
I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show. -- Lorde
I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music. -- Rashida Jones
I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video. -- Angel Deradoorian
It's typical for video customers to often use licensed music - whether a soundtrack, background music, or sound effects - to complement their video projects. -- Jon Oringer
I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it's all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well. -- Melanie Martinez
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 don't want to know what people are doing. Like, I don't need to know who's got a new music video and who's got a new lipstick. -- Miley Cyrus
I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That's so funny. -- Zooey Deschanel
The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get. -- Joseph Kosinski
We try to spread the word about the charity by doing fun little stunts to catch people's attention. Like when Hank Green did a music video for us. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Directing music videos, especially ones that are concept/narrative driven is challenging in itself, but Directing a music video within a digital video environment is even more difficult. -- Jon Jon Augustavo
I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time. -- Frank Darabont
[Kids today] think "Grease" is just one long music video. So they watch it over and over again the way we, when we were kids, we listened to albums. -- Didi Conn
My first official music video for "Who Am I." It's getting crazy traffic and a lot of hype. I got sponsored by a company called MATIX because of it. -- SonReal
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
A lot of the music video stuff I've worked on is mostly me pitching ideas, and then if [the artists] have notes or thoughts, I'll integrate them into the idea. -- Hiro Murai
As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video. -- Eric Hernandez
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
Meeting Justin Bieber was interesting. We were backstage at The Voice, and he was there premiering his "Boyfriend" music video. I was in six-inch heels, so I was towering over him like a giant. -- Erin Willett
I know how to make other women look beautiful: from hair to makeup to wardrobe. So, I feel that I have a gift with imaging, and that's kind of fundamental to the music video process. -- Nia Long
If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that is very nonlinear - and that's the essence of a good music video. -- Grimes

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