I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.
There's no real music on television unless it's music television, and then it's expensive videos, which people like me can't do.
MTV definitely has the effect of narrowing the range of music that hits the mainstream. On the other hand, isn't that the effect of television in general?
Television, above all, is the place where people can see the world they live in, and if the world they live in is a world without the arts, so much the worse for television, and so much the worse for the viewers.
I think musicians should stay off television generally.
Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
I have no problem with television as a genre.
There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.