Radio Quotes

• I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

  

  John Tesh
  • Musician
  • Radio
  • Grew Up

• I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.

  

  Ernie Harwell
  • Thanks
  • Loyalty
  • Repay

• I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Car
  • Understand
  • Japanese

• It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

  

  Bono U2
  • Sweet
  • Radio
  • Rotting

• When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

  

  Boots Riley
  • Song
  • Radio
  • Cousin

• Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.

  

  David Samuels
  • Car
  • Planets
  • Loud

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

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Forget
  • I Think
  • Radio

• We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Record
  • Radio
  • Edit

• Until it's on the radio or online, it's not real. With U2, our album isn't finished until it's in the stores.

  

  Bono U2
  • Radio
  • Online
  • Stores

• I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.

  

  Paul McDonald
  • Singing
  • Radio
  • Harmonies

• Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

  

  Casey Kasem
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Radio

• I love listening to games on the radio... you can't see what's going on.

  

  Andy Townsend
  • Listening
  • Games
  • Radio

• I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as you're honest, you don't lose your edge.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Long
  • Book
  • Honest

• People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • People
  • Song
  • Radio

• I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Radio
  • Mediums
  • Mass

• If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?

  

  Enele Sopoaga
  • Grandmother
  • Supposed
  • Warning

• Listen- my relationship with radio on a personal level is nothing but a one way love-a-thon... I love radio, I grew up on radio. That's where I heard Buddy Holly, that's where I heard Chuck Berry. I couldn't believe it the first time I heard one of my records on the radio, and I STILL love hearing anything I'm involved with on radio, and some of my best friends were from radio. But we were on different sides of that argument, there's no question about that.

  

  Bernie Finkelstein
  • Relationship
  • I Love
  • Records

• Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.

  

  David Rodigan
  • Mind
  • Essence
  • Patronised

• Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.

  

  Stuart Symington
  • Depression
  • Making
  • Survived

• There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

  

  Geoff Rickly
  • Privilege
  • Enjoyed
  • Upper

• Using my listener database and RadioStudy has allowed me to get into the listener's head: What they value, fear, desire, etc.

  

  Bob Walker
  • Desire
  • Value
  • Listener

• Every now and then, I might listen to music, but I try not to listen to it too much because when you turn on the radio and hear the same song over and over again. You won't appreciate it as much; it won't be as fresh.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Music
  • Song
  • Radio

• And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you're going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can't apologize for it.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Strong
  • Ugly
  • Emotion

• I was just trying to get the side draft. We were trying to get so slow. I wasn't sure if Sam was trying to pass or push. I didn't know which way he was going. I really thought the finish line was ahead of me. I was thinking, 'Look! It's right up there!' And they were telling me on the radio that the race was over.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Race
  • Finish
  • Line

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