Quotes by Mtv The way I think it all went down was MTV was doing a special on people and my publicist heard about it.It was a good thing though. People ask me about that all the time, all over the world. Sometimes I feel I'm more known for that then for rapping. Mic Geronimo mtv rap thinking 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 play culture For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful. Michael Stipe mtv powerful song 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 mtv awards song 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 mtv missing people 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 mtv calling people I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in charge of what people see or hear are afraid. What you hear on top 40 or what you see on BET or MTV is not a fair representation of what is really going on... Mos Def mtv long thinking I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content. Nafisa Joseph mtv acting want 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 mtv realizing tunes 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 mtv littles interesting I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis. Nelly mtv media art I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials and voiceovers and stuff. My first job was on a pilot of that prank show called 'Boiling Points' on MTV. Nick Kroll mtv new-york jobs My first job. I got fired from this MTV prank show, or I didn't make the cut of what ended up being, as we all know, Boiling Points. It was my first professional job and I was bragging. Nick Kroll mtv cutting jobs MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with. Nick Rhodes mtv force I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV. Nina Blackwood mtv three people I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time. Nina Blackwood spinal-tap mtv film 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 mtv talking thinking 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 impact albums I want to do an 'Extreme Makeover' show. You know that MTV show 'I Want To Have A Famous Face'? Well, I want to do a new show. I want to have a different famous face. Pauly Shore mtv different faces 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 mtv cameras unique «12345678»