MTV

I want my MTV. —Dire Straits

MTV is an American cable television channel, initially launched to specialize in music videos.

Quotes about

• Listen here
  Now that ain't workin', that's the way you do it
  You play the guitar on the MTV
  That ain't workin'
  That's the way you do it
  Money for nothin', and your chicks for free.
  • Dire Straits, “Money for Nothing”

• I want my MTV.
  • Dire Straits, “Money for Nothing”

• The video of 'paranoid' has been censored by MTV.  They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.
  • Thom Yorke, (interview, 1997).

• I don't think MTV would let us play that. (After an audience member requests "Rape Me.")
  • Kurt Cobain, 1993-11-18 at Sony Music Studios, New York City, New York (MTV Unplugged).

See also

• Beavis and Butt-Head