Radio Quotes

"I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

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

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower"

Stephen Malkmus, Musician

"Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers"

Uri Geller, Entertainer

"The last time I spoke with Robert was back in May. When his wife was murdered, I talked to several radio stations in defense of him because I know how Bobby Blake really is, and as far as I'm concerned, there's no murder in his heart"

Tommy Bond, Actor

"If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv"

John Frusciante, Musician

"With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys"

Curt Weldon, Politician

"I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles"

John Mellencamp, Musician

"There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"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"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been"

Ivan Reitman, Actor

"I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio"

Nina Blackwood, Celebrity

"So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"I wanted to be a radio announcer"

Dick Van Dyke, Actor

"I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network"

Nina Blackwood, Celebrity

"Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play"

Chico Hamilton, Musician

"Integral to the orb is our low cost long-range wireless radio data system and a protocol that allows us to send this data over 90% of the US population every 15 minutes throughout the day"

David Rose, Musician

"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio"

David R. Gergen

"Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour"

Fritz Zwicky, Scientist

"Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable"

Bob Seger, Musician

"Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us"

Barry Gibb, Musician

"I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years"

Casey Kasum

"We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead"

Dan Hawkins, Musician

"I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting"

Casey Kasum

"It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night"

Andrea Mitchell, Journalist

"President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which"

Dennis Miller, Comedian

"But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up"

Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist

"I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley"

Spike Lee, Director

"As far as the radio waves part of the spectrum, we can do these adequately from the ground because the atmosphere is basically transparent to our radio waves"

Claude Nicollier, Astronaut

"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

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