Radio Quotes

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

  

  Tones and I
  • Song
  • Focus
  • Radio

• 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
  • Mean
  • Air
  • Next

• 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.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Voice
  • Used
  • Mouths

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

  

  Brian Christian
  • People
  • Rock
  • 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

• 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
  • Force
  • Public
  • Standup

• 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

• 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
  • America
  • Radio
  • Factory

• 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
  • General Norm Schwarzkopf
  • South Vietnamese soldiers
  • American helicopters

• I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

  

  Rita Coolidge
  • Think
  • Jazz
  • Radio

• 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
  • Play
  • Television
  • Newspapers

• 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
  • Poet
  • Radio
  • Turns

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Radio

• I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Radio
  • Pieces
  • Fit

• 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
  • Play
  • Break
  • Labels

• 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
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Radio

• Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

  

  Casey Kasem
  • Emotional
  • Levels
  • Connecting

• 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
  • Emotion
  • Ugly

• If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Song
  • Radio
  • Garbage

• Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Records
  • Radio

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