Radio Quotes

There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

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

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

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.

I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.'

I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone.

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.

The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.

We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'

The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.

I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don't really remember until you're on the radio again, sometimes in your old radio station and sitting with the guys you used to work with and you go, 'Oh yeah, I can't say these things anymore. I'm handcuffed.'

Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.