Radio Quotes

The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.

Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

Talk radio doesn't need to be political.

The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.

I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.

Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

Now we've got the cables. We've got talk radio. We've got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers.

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.

I never sent promotional copies to Christian radio stations in my life. It's not what I'm interested in.

I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

One of the things that makes me happiest and proudest is that the talk radio venue, the whole market has expanded. There are all kinds of people doing it now.

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear.

Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.

Voiceover work reminds me of old-time radio. When I was little I used to sneak and stay up at night and listen to Mystery Radio Theater - I loved all those old radio plays.

In Europe, radio stations are owned by a variety of different entities, so there is less uniformity on radio programming and more opportunity for artists to get radio play and break overseas.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.

I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.

Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

Most of the time you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.

At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.