Radio Quotes

When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off that. No matter how successful I become, I always look at radio as the only skill set I can really call on. I even know how to operate the boards.

I built my own hi-fi set and enjoyed helping friends with their amateur radio transmitters, but lost interest as soon as they worked.

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

I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

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?

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

Talk radio doesn't need to be political.

I don't have a problem being on 'MTV,' and I don't have a problem being on the radio. I actually like it. So there. And anyone that calls me a sell out is just jealous.

The new national campfire - radio.

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.

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - and all of a sudden it came back to traditional. Now it's kind of swung the other way a little bit, but it always comes back.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

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

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

It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.

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

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.

I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.

I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!