Media Quotes

I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

The way I'm distorted and intentionally misquoted has been going on since 1985.

Money's Too Tight to Mention' was about as big an anti-Thatcherite message as you can get in pop music. There was a vast swath of the British media at that time that were rabid Thatcherites; do you think they are going to take kindly to me? Then I got hit by the left, because we were too popular.

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

There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the Tupac Machine.

No matter who committed the crime, they all yell at me. And the media is greedier than most. You could sell 'em your soul and they'll be on ya till a nigga's a ghost.

We shouldn't be angry and my raps that I'm rapping to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with the same atrocities that they gave to me? In the media, they don't talk about it. So in my raps, I have to talk about it.

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

Most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.

I feel like I'm being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I'm upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo's outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody's peeping.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?