Radio Quotes

The fans like the idea we do what we want. It's not an act. Screw the record company and the beaten path. Without MTV or radio, we still have a huge underground following.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

I actually think the band doesn't need the television show. And I actually think the television show holds it back. No one at radio wants to play a band that's on a television show.

And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

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I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio...

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

Great art comes from great artists. There’s a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn’t have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.

Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.

They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door. I'm lookin' at my girlfriend, she's passed out on the floor.

Don't ever call me a bottler on the radio with thousands of people listening

When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

I don't like to cook. I can make a TV dinner taste like radio.

I love singing along to the radio while I'm riding in the back of a squad car.

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.