Radio Quotes
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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.
David Rodigan
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I don't want to focus too much on trying to write a song for radio.
Tones and I
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There's not much radio in the UK, really. In America, you're in a car, factory, wherever, and you turn the dial on the radio, and can hear about a million stations. Hardly any in England.
Nick Hodgson
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I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'
Dolly Parton
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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.
Sherman Alexie
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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.
Howard Stern
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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.
Harry Shearer
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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.
Hal Moore
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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
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Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.
Casey Kasem
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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.
Ray Bradbury
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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
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I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
Rita Coolidge
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I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.
Normani Kordei Hamilton
Fifth Harmony
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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.
Chad Channing
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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.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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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.
Haruki Murakami
