Radio Quotes

"I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired"

"Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know"

Sarah Vowell, Author

"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

"So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while"

Martin Milner, Actor

"Radio is immediate"

Wink Martindale, Entertainer

"I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing"

Robert Bresson, Director

"I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth"

Joe Strummer, Musician

"I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama"

Martin Milner, Actor

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

Martin Milner, Actor

"I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues"

Otis Rush, Musician

"I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left"

Clint Black, Musician

"Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society"

Richard J. Daley, Politician

"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

"I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone"

Norm MacDonald, Actor

"I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old"

Sarah Vowell, Author

"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

"I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio"

John Tesh, Musician

"I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the piano in the radio station"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show"

Martin Milner, Actor

"So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

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

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"My dad heard of a studio on the radio, and it was advertised as a place for kids to meet kids, and it was actually a studio, and that's where I met my manager and agent"

Mila Kunis, Actress

"Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything"

Ruben Blades, Musician

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

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling"

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician

"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"

Michael Medved, Journalist

"I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it"

Vanilla Ice, Musician

"The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials"

Robert McChesney, Critic

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

Robert McChesney, Critic

"And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever"

Michael Stipe, Musician

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