Radio Quotes

"You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home"

Harry Shearer, Actor

"And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live"

James Young, Musician

"I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations"

William Hurt, Actor

"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

"On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio"

Lisa Guerrero, Journalist

"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America"

Mel Torme, Musician

"The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site"

Bo Gritz, Soldier

"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

"I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas"

Abbey Lincoln, Musician

"I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies"

Michel Legrand, Composer

"This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years"

Hilary Rosen, Businesswoman

"If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs"

Mike Gordon, Musician

"I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing"

Dustin Diamond, Actor

"I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years"

Gary Cherone, Musician

"The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio"

Gavin Bryars, Composer

"At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles"

Randy West, Entertainer

"The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system"

Tom C. Clark, Politician

"I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time"

Mako, Actor

"The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it"

Richie Benaud, Athlete

"Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar"

Leo Kottke, Musician

"The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language"

Dominic Chianese, Actor

"I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing"

Eric Bogosian, Actor

"I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much"

Stephen Root, Actor

"Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator"

Nick Hornby, Writer

"The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses"

Dweezil Zappa, Musician

"I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left"

Dick Van Patten, Actor

"Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music"

Iris DeMent, Musician

"I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!"

George Sidney, Director

"Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds"

Dick York, Actor

"In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War"

Chuck Jones, Director

"The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship"

Dweezil Zappa, Musician

"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations"

Earl Blumenauer, Politician

"I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did"

Cliff Martinez, Musician

"Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward"

John Amery, Politician

"From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was"

Dick Van Patten, Actor

"In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time"

Debbie Allen, Actress

"I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio"

Frank Rich, Journalist

"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio"

Debbie Allen, Actress

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