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Quotes About Television

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.
~ Dan Fogelberg
What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.
~ Simon Cowell
I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.
~ Misty Copeland
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out
~ Tommy Shaw
I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.
~ John Entwistle
Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.
~ Terence McKenna
If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.
~ Gerald Durrell
I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
~ Karl Pilkington
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
~ Christopher Lasch
The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.
~ Anson Mount
'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.
~ Seth MacFarlane
A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.
~ Richard Helms
Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.
~ Kevin McKidd
I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor.
~ Jon Favreau
I can't believe I did a peace sign on TV - like Ringo Starr!
~ Adele
Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
~ Dan Quayle
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
~ Gore Vidal
Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.
~ Molly Ivins
I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.
~ Dan Quayle
Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven.
~ Tim Wirth
I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.
~ William Gibson
I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.
~ Holly Madison
I understand the process of politics and the game of television.
~ John Sununu