Quotes About Media

Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

The function of pop music is to be consumed.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.

Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

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?

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

All rock music is fake news.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

Short form media is reductionist by nature.