Radio Quotes

I'm not in any way selling out by having a record that's good enough for radio.

The people in Atlanta, they're not really up on the blogs. A few people are, but it's not super crazy. In Atlanta it's still very much radio. When they hear it on the radio, that's what it is.

I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

This is nothin for the radio... but they'll still play it though

When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.

On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

Whenever I've messed around with radio-controlled things, there's always been a part of me that's thought, I wonder if there might actually be a little guy piloting these vehicles.

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.

Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.

As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

I was on my way to the gym. It was incredible. I was screamin at cars, 'That's me on the radio!

My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.

In the digital age we're in now, with satellite radio and Pandora and stuff like that, it's not about, "I listen to this kind of music." It's about, "I listen to good music and bad music."

As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.

For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.

Power is the band that we perceive things on. In radio we have stations. Frequencies vibrate at certain rates and within those frequencies we transmit information and receive information.

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.

I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

Radio is the death and life of Africa.

I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens.

I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio.

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast.

My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.

Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it.

I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.