Radio Quotes

It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.

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.

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

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

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

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

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 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.

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones 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.