Radio Quotes

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

I went to night school and summer school, I made that whole year up and I actually graduated on time. Also, I got a part-time job at the radio station.

I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.

I want to do more television and I want to do more radio.

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.

Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent a lot of time doing film, I might then do some radio.

When I was growing up, they had just found radio.

Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

I don't want to see kids in America being scared because they're hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things.

I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

Republicans look to find the future and they find radio.

My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid.

They told us to buy duct tape and portable radios so that if the world does end, we can all listen to Rush Limbaugh blame it on Clinton.

I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.

When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio. They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone. But only songs like these played in minor keys, keep those memories holding on.

The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.

I'm a radio nerd. I've loved radio since I was a kid. I'm a huge Howard Stern fan.

Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.

You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

I still love the radio. I think the radio is still an important thing in music.

I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.

I imagined calling in to my own radio show: Yeah hi, I'm a werewolf, and I'm stuck in a cabin in the woods with another werewolf and a werewolf hunter.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.

As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

People tend to personalize technology so they can't get to the systemic analysis. They say, "Oh, I can't give up my personal computer." Or, "I just love radio too much."

Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.