Quotes About Radio

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

Life isn't a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that's how music gets around.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences

My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.