Radio Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.

  

  Missy Elliott
  • People
  • Always
  • Person

• People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

  

  Ridley Scott
  • Attention
  • Making
  • Producing

• I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Ideas
  • Clear
  • Pieces

• 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

• You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

  

  Nickolas Ashford
  • Moving
  • Radio
  • Bigger

• I mean, it’s not as though Radio 4 can put a person in a good mood; all it does is make me feel depressed about the economy and calcify my belief that everything I’m feeding my family is poisoning them. Still, I stick with it because it helps me have something to talk about at dinner parties.

  

  Adele Parks
  • Family
  • Economy
  • Mood

• Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Woman
  • Famous
  • Journalist

• I don't want to focus too much on trying to write a song for radio.

  

  Tones and I
  • Song
  • Focus
  • Radio

• Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Care
  • Modern
  • Tragedy

• I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Radio
  • Transistors

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

  

  Andy Townsend
  • Listening
  • Games
  • Radio

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

  

  Hector Elizondo
  • Work
  • Radio

• One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialling out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Music
  • Wisdom
  • Practice

• Fifty-thousand were gathered March,27th,1933 in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, Houston, and about seven other American cities. At each supportive rally, thousands huddled around loudspeakers waiting for the Garden event, which would be broadcast live via radio to 200 additional cities across the country. At least 1 million Jews were participating nationwide. Perhaps another million Americans of non-Jewish descent heritage stood with them.

  

  Edwin Black
  • Cities
  • Supportive
  • Gathered

• 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
  • Mass
  • Mediums

• I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit. Look at Van Gogh's paintings: there's as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it's boring.

  

  Bart Yates
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Artist
  • Creative
  • Loss

• The radio voice, you're in the studio, there's nobody around, and you're using your personality and enunciation skills to get the message across. At the stadium, there are vendors, there are people, the fans talking to each other. It's very difficult. If you were to speak as a radio disk jockey, no one would ever understand what you're saying.

  

  Charlie Brotman
  • Personality
  • Speak
  • Difficult

• Commercial radio is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Business
  • Guitar

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

  

  Michel Legrand
  • Harmony
  • Radio
  • Melody

• I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to do a big radio country album.

  

  Daughn Gibson
  • Lying
  • Said
  • Album

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