Radio Quotes

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

"Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"Talk radio doesn't need to be political"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"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

"About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

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

Adam Jones, Musician

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

Rip Taylor, Comedian

"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

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

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission"

Lion Feuchtwanger, Novelist

"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"

Alan Jackson, 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

"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"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"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've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"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

"Gossip is the Devil's radio"

George Harrison, Musician

"People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love"

Eminem, Musician

"The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment"

Jacques Ellul, Philosopher

"I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat"

Rachel Maddow, Journalist

"Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner.""

William Bell

"Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating"

Ice T, Musician

"I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV"

Jason Mraz, Musician

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

Howard Stern, Entertainer

"I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"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

"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio"

David Lee Roth, Musician

"Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend"

Anatoli Boukreev, Athlete

"I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage"

Rory Bremner, Comedian

"I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace"

Bryan White, Musician

"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

"Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business"

Robin Trower, Musician

"The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

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

Peter De Vries, Novelist

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

Julie Benz, Actress

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