Quotes About Radio

I've always listened to Top 40 music.

The part that I loved about radio wasn't getting on the air - it was all this great stuff my listeners would tell me.

I'm a huge Top 40 lover.

When I first started, in 2006, it was an exciting time. Independent, cool, weird artists were being successful, and magazines were writing about them, and people were getting played on radio that were, like, really good.

I'm just trying to bring the sound from Atlanta over to the mainstream radio in a way that everybody can enjoy.

I like to hear BBC Manchester about the news and to learn English and the Manchester accent.

In March 1977, I taped the single 'Career Opportunities' off Piccadilly Radio, which was the '70s equivalent of downloading, and then the album came out in April 1977.

We listen to the old radio shows. Light flares and spreads across the blue-banded edge, sunrise, sunset, the urban grids in shadow. There is a sweetness in the tenor voice of the young man singing, a simple vigour that time and distance and random noise have enveloped in eloquence and yearning. Every sound, every lilt of strings has this veneer of age.

We have to boil our water," Steffie said. "Why?" "It said on the radio." "They're always saying boil your water," Babette said. "It's the new thing, like turn your wheel in the direction of the skid. Here comes Wilder now. I guess we can eat.

Radio traffic in your ears adds to the storm and demands a conscious response, which means one's actions in the moment must be subconscious.

Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.

The Aloha system, he learned, was an experimental, ARPA-funded network that transmitted computer data via radio waves, instead of via the telephone lines used in the Arpanet.

The moment Shostakovich spoke over the radio, the story of the Seventh Symphony started to sparkle and to effervesce into myth. It became a public story used by others for their own ends. This does not mean that people lied — but people blurred details; they tugged; they nudged.

I switched the FM-UHF marine radio to the commercial frequencies and tried to find something that didn't sound like somebody trying to break up a dogfight in a sorority house by banging drums and cymbals. Not that I want to say it isn't music.

without getting near bluegrass, CNN, opera, or a hundred other stations. Out of frustration on her part and fatigue on his, they both threw in the towel early and settled on soft jazz.

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

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.

I'm a guy that after having experience in radio and stuff, if I can trust the people I'm working with, I get a real thrill with working with other people who are good at what they do.

Both telephone numbers for the taxi companies were busy and after he had dismissed the thought of getting hold of a radio car