Radio Quotes

Welcome to Radio Quotes, the ultimate source for the very best quotes from your favored radio reveals! Here you can discover one of the most remarkable lines from one of the most popular radio programs, from classic shows to the most recent hits. Whether you're looking for a funny one-liner or a provocative quote, you'll discover it here. Search our collection of quotes and find the ideal one to share with your loved ones. So tune in and also get motivated!
Small: TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains
Peggy Noonan
"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains"
Peggy Noonan, Writer
Small: Gossip is the Devils radio
George Harrison
"Gossip is the Devil's radio"
George Harrison, Musician
Small: Its not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on
Marilyn Monroe
"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on"
Marilyn Monroe, Actress
Small: I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio
Joan Rivers
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio"
Joan Rivers, Comedian
Small: I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio
Rodney Dangerfield
"I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio"
Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian
Small: Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making
"Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making"
Fred Allen, Comedian
Small: I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening
"I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening"
Tom Jones, Musician
Small: I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio.
"I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life"
Ernie Harwell, Celebrity
Small: I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it wa
"I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day"
Thom Yorke, Musician
Small: We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supp
"We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now"
Linda McCartney, Photographer
Small: I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If youre born to make comme
"I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market"
Bryan White, Musician
Small: We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, theyre list
"We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us"
Jeff Tweedy, Musician
Small: I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music
"I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music"
Enrique Iglesias, Musician
Small: There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatev
"There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'"
Chuck D., Musician
Small: The radio makes hideous sounds
Bob Dylan
"The radio makes hideous sounds"
Bob Dylan, Musician
Small: Its so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio
Bono
"It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio"
Bono, Musician
Small: That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the
Johnny Cash
"That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station"
Johnny Cash, Musician
Small: The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so theyve had minor leagues - theyve had local r
"The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team"
Al Franken, Comedian
Small: Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadnt been any radio
"Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that"
Al Franken, Comedian
Small: Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do
Vanessa Carlton
"Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra"
Vanessa Carlton, Musician
Small: We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I
"We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch television. I wasn't allowed to listen to the radio"
Nick Cannon, Musician
Small: If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if thats where they get most of their
Maynard James Keenan
"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets"
Maynard James Keenan, Musician
Small: As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place.
"As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio"
Jason Schwartzman, Actor
Small: Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did
Jimmy Durante
"Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did"
Jimmy Durante, Comedian
Small: There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these cr
Jessica Hagedorn
"There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death"
Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright
Small: I think of the Replacements only when theyre brought up to me. For two years, Im at home, they dont really cro
"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"
Paul Westerberg, Musician
Small: With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded
"With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded"
Lennart Meri, Statesman
Small: The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent
Zac Hanson
"The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music"
Zac Hanson, Musician
Small: People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice
"People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice"
Melanie Griffith, Actress
Small: It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio
"It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio"
Sam Donaldson, Journalist
Small: We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at
"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"
Tommy Chong, Actor
Small: So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and thats how it all started
"So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started"
Rod Taylor, Actor
Small: My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow
Robert Palmer
"My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on"
Robert Palmer, Musician
Small: And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being
Judi Dench
"And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most"
Judi Dench, Actress
Small: Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers
"Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers"
Jerry Springer, Celebrity
Small: I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever Im singin
"I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out"
Paul McDonald, Musician
Small: Well, he doesnt make me laugh. I think Ive got a fair sense of humour but I cant really see it in him.
Ian St. John
"Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well"
Ian St. John, Athlete
Small: Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, youre really connecting
"Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting"
Casey Kasem, Actor
Small: Basically, radio hasnt changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to
"Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience"
Casey Kasum
Small: George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you cant hear him talk
Steven Wright
"George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk"
Steven Wright, Comedian
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