Radio Quotes

In a radio interview [Ted] Cruz compared [Donald]Trump's behavior to schoolyard children throwing taunts at each other, vowing not to take part.

I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

Touring definitely helps sell albums. Things have changed. I've noticed now more than ever when you market an album, get radio play/video play etc. it helps sell albums but it helps get more shows.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists.

Yesterday, President Obama prank-called a Washington radio station, calling himself 'Barry from D.C.' Then, just to mess with him, Obama called Glenn Beck's radio show as 'B. Hussein from Kenya.'

I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"

I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

And then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. "Love this song," Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio.

To have your music used on television and in movies, that's our way of getting it across to people. We're not on the radio all the time. It's the only way to get your music heard.

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!

There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it's their job to only have one opinion, they can't tell you about their feelings. They have to go with what pays their bills.

There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.

A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to do a big radio country album.

Dear Hotel People: We don't need a cheeseball clock-radio. WE NEED PLACES TO PLUG STUFF IN. Thank you.

When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.

My heart goes out to DJs who are governed entirely by playlists. Being allowed the freedom of choice, that - for me - is what makes radio special.

Some pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.

Even in independent music, people push towards radio. It is very political.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

I have an Internet radio show where people can call in for healing.

You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.

President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.

Radio voices have a solid, even texture.

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.

As far am I'm concerned, I don't listen to radio anymore. They play the same ten songs over and over again, so why would I?

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

Sometimes the roles you're being offered, leads in films aren't good enough. Actually it's you're better going and doing a radio play or a decent TV.

First of all, very few people listen to Hugh Hewitt, radio show, that's the good news. Check out the ratings.

Since the day I got in radio at the age of 15, I always wanted everyone with ears listening to me. I don't know how to narrow that down.