Quotes and Sayings About Radio
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
-- Aaron Tveit -
When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.
-- Adam Carolla -
I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
-- Adam Carolla -
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When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when I turn on my radio, when I hear that Jews have been insulted, mistreated, persecuted, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when, finally, I turn on my radio and hear that in Africa forced labor has been inaugurated and legalized, I say that we have certainly been lied to: Hitler is not dead.
-- Aime Cesaire -
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.
-- Alan Jackson -
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
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The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.
-- Alison Gopnik -
I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
-- Allen Funt -
At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.
-- Amar Bose -
The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.
-- Anais Nin -
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I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.
-- Andrew W.K. -
I love listening to games on the radio... you can't see what's going on
-- Andy Townsend -
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.
-- Angie Stone -
I want to do more television and I want to do more radio.
-- Anna Benson -
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My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.
-- Annalena McAfee -
I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.
-- Art Garfunkel -
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
-- Art Garfunkel -
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 -
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Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.
-- Arthur Smith -
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.
-- Avril Lavigne -
I want to be played on the radio. I want to have Top 40 hits,
-- Avril Lavigne -
I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
-- Bernardine Dohrn -
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I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
-- Bernie Worrell -
Talk radio doesn't need to be political.
-- Big Jim Sullivan -
It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.
-- Bill James -
I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.
-- Bill NighySource : Interview with Erik Davis, www.fandango.com. July 12, 2012.
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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?
-- Bill Wyman -
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.
-- Billy Collins