Radio Quotes

Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business.

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

I live in a bad neighborhood. Why, I saw two complete strangers share a taxi - yeah, one guy took the radio and the other guy took the tires.

I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station.

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.

I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.

The hope for me going back into television - after doing what will have been two years of radio - is to bring that authenticity with me. And, to not have the visual be overpowering the content.

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

Ninety percent of my thoughts are, "How will this work on the radio?"

I've never, like some people are, been embarrassed to be in radio.

If it's done right, radio can just be far more important than television.

Seriously, he is just a voice on the radio, unlike the ones in your head, you don't have to do what he tells you to do.

It's easier to list Hollywood and TV people who don't have a radio show now, take less time to do that than to list those who do.

That's why we began calling it the daily soap opera, or it's just the place on radio and TV where Democrat Party agenda is advanced. But it isn't media.

If we don't like a radio or TV show, we turn it off. If the left don't like it, they try to shut it down.

That's why I don't listen to other people on the radio, never have, 'cause I don't want to inadvertently, even unaware, end up repeating something somebody else has already said.

What I've figured out how to do is make people feel comfortable on television and on the radio, which enables me to have access to them, which is key for what I do.

Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.

When I started in radio, I worked for free. I lived at the radio station. Then I worked for very little money.

I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.

The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.

Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.

I don't care about the clubs, I don't care about the radio, all I care about is getting my digital downloads.

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.

It's not only progressives who listen to progressive radio.

The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.

The sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

The radio has nothing to do with metal's existence or non-existence. It's for trend only.

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials

Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

When I was a kid I had a friend who worked in a radio station. Whenever we walked under a bridge, you couldn't hear what he said.

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that."

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.