Radio Quotes

• 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

• Commercial radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Enemy
  • Radio

• You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Audience
  • Shows
  • Radio

• I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Radio

• Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down an electronic or print page and pick among six or seven stories you might like and want to read. With television and radio, you have to wait until the guy's finished talking about the balloon boy, which I don't have the slightest interest in, to find out that all hell's broken loose in Baghdad. Because they've chosen that day to start with the balloon boy.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Television
  • Media
  • Radio

• I think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.

  

  Ricki-Lee Coulter
  • Songs
  • Australia
  • Commercial

• Radio is the playground of coincidence.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Radio
  • Coincidence

• I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.

  

  Casey Abrams
  • Beautiful
  • Song
  • Crazy

• The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the radio.

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • People
  • Kind
  • Listening

• 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

• Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

  

  Brian Christian
  • People
  • Rock
  • Radio

• The radio doesn't want to play you until you're No.1 on Shazam, and you can't get No.1 on Shazam without getting played.

  

  Tones and I
  • Play
  • Radio

• I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?

  

  Elana Dykewomon
  • Strong
  • Poet
  • Charming

• 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

• Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.

  

  Eliza Griswold
  • Poetry
  • Program
  • Afganistan

• I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Long
  • Unusual
  • Loud

• I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

  

  Rupert Penry-Jones
  • World
  • Theatre
  • Boring

• When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

  

  Hakeem Seriki
  • Music
  • Car
  • Brainstorm

• I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Memories
  • Faces
  • Radio

• We gave interviews to radio. We did not give press interviews, or very few.

  

  Doug Fieger The Knack
  • Radio
  • Press
  • Interviews

• I think '60s are appealing to creative people, because it seemed to be a time of endless possibilities, when the boundaries of what could be considered popular culture were being expanded almost by the week. It doesn't feel like that anymore. At times, I wish it were so. Radio is a perfect example; good God, I mean, back then the most interesting songs were also hits, and that's just not true anymore. It hasn't been true in a long time.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • God
  • Culture
  • Boundaries

• Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Peace
  • Road
  • Radio

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

  

  Hector Elizondo
  • Work
  • Radio

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