Radio Quotes

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen.

Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.

Politically I don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country.

In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.

I would want to make Radio Haiti as independent as possible, which means it can't be strictly commercial.

It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.

Everything on the radio is metaphorical in a bad way. But when I write a lyric, like "bang my box," that's pretty clear.

When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.

What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information.

If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.

Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.

The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant.

Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me over.

There's not much radio in the UK, really. In America, you're in a car, factory, wherever, and you turn the dial on the radio, and can hear about a million stations. Hardly any in England.

You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

Spread the word about good music. Don't just listen to what's on the radio. If you put in a little effort, you can find some truly wonderful stuff.

I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network.

I really suggest listening to talk radio. I mean, if you just listen to what the talk hosts are saying, they sound like they are lunatics.

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

After I was married a year I remembered things like radio stations and forgot my husband.

Anna looked at Brother Wolf. ‘I’d like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.

Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.

At home, the radio was a big source and the classic radio programs we would listen to like Amos and Andy and whatever other ones there were.

I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.

Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932.

My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.

You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!

You leave a country, they stop playing you on the radio.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.

The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .

I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.

Some people know me because of my music and come and see me in my concerts but you very rarely see me or hear me in press or TV or radio magazines.

I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station.

If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and radio.

Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.