Mike McCready Quotes

Audiences want to see something interesting. It doesn't matter which genre or period it belongs to.

I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

I think that, given a real choice, people would like to hear something interesting, not something bland and right down the middle.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I like raconteurs; I like conversation. I liked the 'Tonight Show' when it was 90 minutes, I like when people aren't plugging things per se, and they're just in the moment being interesting.

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great.

I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.

I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.

VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.

I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.

I would like to visit with people who are so interesting and so... and there are so many wonderful people out there that I would love to have the chance to talk to for a longer time.

I just want to start conversations. I want to do films that prompt conversations - whether that is positive, negative, indifferent - just ones that you leave the theater wanting to know more, wanting to watch the film over and over again.

To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.

I just love listening to music and talking about it, so my social media is mostly dedicated to talking about songs and stuff that interests me.

Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring.

I actually enjoy talking about some things other than football.

I like to talk about things when it pertains to a band. I like to talk about things that matter and music.

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.

Social is about engaging, it's about a conversation, it's about listening and then responding, it's an ongoing conversation with our fan base.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.