I love rap, and part of hip-hop culture is being excessive and absurd, and I can’t be excessive and absurd without sounding corny. So I have to do it in a very truthful, weird way.
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
I grew up in the ’80s, when breaking was cool, and then it got corny in the ’90s, and it became cool again with all these choreographed B-Boy dance crews.
It might sound corny, but honestly, it’s worth staying true to your voice. It’ll get you places.
This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it’s true, and I think that’s what this movie is about.
I’ve had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you’ve really Joeled it up – there’s some good periods of Joel; it’s not all hot cheese. But I can’t judge anyone else for their cheese. I’ve deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
I think it’s corny and cheesy for a dude to holler at a girl. That’s just disrespectful in my mind. I may talk to girls, but I don’t hang with girls; I don’t date girls. I haven’t really found anybody.
I don’t think it’s corny to pray at all.
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
I didn’t want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, ‘Are you sending e-mail?’ That’s so corny.
‘Grand Royal’ started because we were on the Lollapalooza tour, and we wanted to send this message to people that the mosh pit is corny. Stop doing that. MTV has ruined it, and it’s dangerous, and girls are getting hurt.
At the risk of sounding corny, the beach and the ocean are such a constant part of Los Angeles life, so that definitely seeps into our music.
It sounds corny to say, but we’re like a family. That experience for all of us really created a bond… The ‘West Side Story’ experience, it really is a family. There’s a closeness that has continued.
When I was a kid, everybody loved Hulk Hogan, right? ‘Eat your vitamins. Eat your vegetables.’ Everybody over 25 hated him because he was corny, right?
I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.
I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ I thought classical music was corny.
Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They’re not cutting edge.
I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They’re so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.
I know it sounds corny, but I look for a girl that has a beautiful personality on the inside.
I used to love to draw. I didn’t want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.
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