Radio Quotes

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.

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.

Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.

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

In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.

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.

I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.

I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

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.

I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years.

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

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

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.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

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.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.