Quotes About Influence

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

I've always been music-oriented. My dad was a musician, and I listened to the radio all of the time.

When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.

I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it.

I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

I believe in legacy. And I believe in making the radio sound better. If I gotta listen to it, I want it to sound good.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.

I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.

I was a huge Radiohead fan growing up.

I was really into Radiohead and Live.