Radio Quotes

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

"The radio makes hideous sounds"

"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

"Talk radio doesn't need to be political"

Jim Sullivan, Musician

"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

"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

"Gossip is the Devil's radio"

George Harrison, 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 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

"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

"Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"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

"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

"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

"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 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

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

Sting, 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

"But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you're going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can't apologize for it"

Howard Stern, Entertainer

"I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things"

Ed Harris, Actor

"Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it"

Dawn French, Comedian

"I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"I watch a lot of baseball on the radio"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air"

Howard Stern, Entertainer

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