Radio Quotes
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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.
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It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
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I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory
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Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.
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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.
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Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow as a kid – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.
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I've done a lot of radio in my life. I've done radio plays for the BBC when I was young so I was absolutely used to that style of work, of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it's always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.
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My heart goes out to DJs who are governed entirely by playlists. Being allowed the freedom of choice, that - for me - is what makes radio special.
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I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.
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I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.
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There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air.
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Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, 'hits.' What's commercially viable gets recycled, endlessly repeated, and as a result of that, the progressive music can't break in.
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A quarter-century later, General Norm Schwarzkopf would date the birth of his famous hot temper to those days, when he begged and pleaded on the radio for someone to evacuate his wounded South Vietnamese soldiers, while American helicopters fluttered by without stopping.
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I don't want to focus too much on trying to write a song for radio.
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My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.
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I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
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We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.
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If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage.
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Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.
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Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.
