Quotes About Radio

I have always loved radio as a medium.

It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.

If a song I'm lucky enough to be a part of comes on the radio, it's definitely really cool and exciting, but I can't focus on anything but the song. Same if one of my songs comes on in a restaurant. I can't just carry on a conversation.

I've heard every pronunciation ever, but the worst was when I was in New York for a radio show at some restaurant. On the door it said, 'Now appearing: Kard Kiard.'

What I saw in the record industry is it's just getting more restricted, more restricted, more restricted to where everyone's trying to figure out what kind of song to make to get on the radio: that's researched and where advertisers are telling you what to play.

When people don't hear you on the radio they think 'maybe he retired.'

It's so rewarding being on radio, especially because it's not about what you look like at all. And I love comedy, so it's very exciting.

In 2009, it was the right time to start working in the radio industry.

I'm not willing to sacrifice what I've learned and what I'm about just to get played on radio.

I would love a radio show, a bit like when Nicky Byrne sat in for Ryan Tubridy.

It feels so satisfying to hear a song I wrote come out of the radio.

I've always loved radio. Television scares me, because I'm older.

Radio's a scary thing for me. It's dope to be on there.

I think 'Easy Rider' might have been the first time that someone made a film using found music instead of an orchestral score. No one had really used found music in a movie before, except to play on radios or when someone was singing in a scene.

Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

I paint. I have been painting since I was kid. If I hadn't gone into radio when I did, I probably would have come out of the Army, gone into the art business, and probably would have flopped because I'm not that great.

I've actually got a Motley Crue channel on Pandora.

I listen to a lot of Pandora. I listen to the Hot 97 app.

My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my exams and thought, 'I don't really want to do a degree.' I did philosophy with the Jesuits for about a year, and then I joined a bank. While I was there, I saw an ad in an Irish paper for radio announcers.

I don't watch football debate shows on TV, hardly listen to the radio or read the papers.

I wish I could've been friends with Charlie Parker and played with him. That's my period. I feel real close to the '40s - and actually, I was born in '37, so I was a kid singing on the radio in the '40s. But I always dreamed of going to big cities.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

To be given the Radio 1 breakfast show was huge, but I was partying so hard I barely remember it.