Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carson Daly

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

Al Yankovic

In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

Bill Griffith

MTV won't do anything unless they own it 100% so that didn't tempt me at all because I would never give away the character.

Alexandra Patsavas

You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.

Shirley Manson

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

Ty Segall

Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid.

Georgia May Jagger

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.

David Bowie

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."

Dan Fogelberg

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

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Greg Chappell

It did not remain confidential though I would have preferred it to have remained so. What else can I say at this stage?

Chris Roberts

Obviously, we would have preferred that it wouldn't have been taken to this stage.

Charlie White

From my own personal standpoint, I've always preferred my hair shorter because it's just easier.

Bernard Laporte

We preferred to let him recuperate and release him on Thursday.

Angelina Jolie

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Josh Beekman

We don't get preferred housing, I wish that we did.

Laurie Graham

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

Adrian Lackay

In general, SARS is seen as a preferred creditor.

Neil LeBlanc

I'll tell you I would have preferred having a francophone in that post. It would have been preferable.

Bede Griffiths

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Billy Corgan

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

Billy Corgan

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

Bill Clark

The permit limits are pretty close to what the reality is.

Bill Cowher

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Bibhu Mohapatra

I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.

C. S. Lewis

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

C. S. Lewis

Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope -- something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.

C. S. Lewis

He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.

Bill Burr

Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.

Ike Taylor

I watched TV for two days, and then after that I just couldn't watch any more.

Silas Weir Mitchell

'Grimm,' I think, is a unique show in a lot of ways. There is certainly nothing on TV that looks like 'Grimm'.

Rachel Tucker

I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

Mary Karr

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

Bill Mitchell

He will when he watches it on TV later.

Azita Ghanizada

TV and film has defined my entire life.

Rocky Carroll

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.'

Ed O'Brien

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.