I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
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I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.
I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.
I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know?
Music videos may seem old hat now, but let me tell you, in the summer of 1981, MTV was indubitably the coolest thing ever invented. And the people who were in the videos... coolest people ever. No question.
At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.
I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.
MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.
I found out a lot of stuff through MTV, and I didn't even have cable, I just saw it at friends' houses. But my culture in junior high was totally influenced by it.
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