Lewis Black
Comedian, Actor, Author
"MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken!"
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Prince
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
"The Internet's completely over. [...] The Internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. [...] They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
Sebastian Bach
Composer
"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?"
Prince
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
"At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated."
Jimmy Buffett
Musician, Author
"I got a PBS mind in an MTV world."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless."
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"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."
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"MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna."
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"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.""
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"I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'"
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"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."
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"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."
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"At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people."
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"I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I'm a junkie for it."
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"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."
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"I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know?"
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"A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought Id try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing."
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"There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV."
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"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."
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"He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists."
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"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."
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"God bless pop music and God bless MTV."
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"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."
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