Radio Quotes

I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!

I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip.

When I was about 13 or 14. I was in a Kingston Trio type group. We evolved into the New Breed. Our first song on the radio was "Green Eyed Woman," not to be confused with "Green Eyed Lady".

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"

I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics.

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games.

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.

An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate.

It should be like a salmon taking to open water. I've done so much morning radio that I won't be overwhelmed by it, but it's still going to be a challenge.

It was always meant to ease out of a big radio song and flow into the next one. Don't is the bridge song in between Sing and Thinking Out Loud.

Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

In the private arena, you can do whatever you wish, and people do. These crazy evangelical preachers get on the radio and TV and say incredible things.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, Ive always felt less is more, and its really a question of my setting up the color analyst more than anything else.

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.