Media Quotes - Page 103

You have to control things, especially with the social media, because once it's out there, it's out there. And that becomes the fact.

The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.

That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

All the old rules - if you say some crazy stuff you get your show canceled or you get your campaign ended - don't apply in the world of social media. They don't apply in the world of reality TV.

Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.

You have a new media system and Donald Trump emerged as a new master of it.

Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

If you want to understand what's going to happen, you can't look in the rearview mirror into the United States' history, because that's done now. You have to look out at the rest of the world and look at the history of the rest of the world, and what you'll see is demonstrations and counter-demonstrations are going to become the norm. We'll have a big march, then they'll have a big march, we'll have a big rally and they'll have a big rally. That will be one of the features. Again, a pro-regime and pro-opposition media system, that will become a feature.

Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.

These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.

I know politics; I know the media.

I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.

A lot of people can figure out the social media aspect of it, or the merchandising aspect, or whatever and get enough momentum to start a career. To sustain it, you have to keep writing and you have to keep creating.

Social media is really the heart of keeping in touch with your fans. I love it. You can try out new music on your fans, get immediate responses, spread the word about anything. It's really great. To reach me is to tweet me.

I don't get tied to the music industry where you have to be on social media all day.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

So that all the people who say, you know, "All the media hates America." A lot of the media does hate America but this is a case of, actually, the press doing its best, I think, to do the right by national security. So good for them.

Every single comedian in Canada is now living in the United States.

Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God.

Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end, the #1 media for musicians. Which is strange, because there's a visual associated with it.

I'm not one for a lot of media attention.