Music Television Quotes

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

God bless pop music and God bless MTV.

MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.

If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s.

I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.

Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called 'All At Sea,' which is a contemporary pop song. So the people that know me there tend to think of me in the singer/songwriter category.

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

I've been on MTV for so many years. They're so stupid and, like, disrespectful and rude.

When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.

At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.

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.

I had definitely stopped watching MTV by 2000.

MTV has a been a great partner over the years. I'm truly grateful for the platform they've provided for me to create and refine compelling, entertaining media at the highest level.

I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different.

Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.

The Dave Clark Five had more appearances on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' than The Beatles.

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

I think MTV is so iconic that for them to notice me, little ol' me, was very, very exciting.

I grew up watching 'TRL.' I had older sisters who got me into it!

I've had a relationship, a good relationship, with MTV for a long time, and I'd like to maintain that.

I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?

Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music.