Radio Quotes: Tuning in to Wisdom

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

"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"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

"Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care"

Don Rose, Radio host

"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"

Doug Coupland, Author

"I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

"The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster"

Ernst Fischer, Writer

"Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around"

Boz Scaggs, Musician

"As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

"It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

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

Sting, Musician

"The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan"

Jared Diamond, Author

"That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world"

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers"

Carly Simon, Musician

"With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded"

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"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

"There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be"

Boz Scaggs, Musician

"We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits"

Adam Jones, Musician

"Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

"I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school"

Will Smith, Actor

"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

"All India radio was worldwide"

Ajay Naidu, Actor

"The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps"

Patrick Macnee, Actor

"The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore"

Will McDonough, Writer

"I went to Sirius Satellite Radio and did my show, Rapping With Rip"

Rip Taylor, Comedian

"In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy"

Martin Ryle, Scientist

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

John Avlon, Writer

"Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers"

Jerry Springer, Celebrity

"It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour"

Ann Wilson, Musician

"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners"

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"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

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