Quotes About Radio

DDT stood for Dangerous Darrell Thomas. Thomas had given himself the name when he was riding with a motorcycle club and was interviewed for a public radio magazine. The magazine writer got it wrong, though, and referred to him as TDT--Terrible Darrell Thompson--which lost something of its intent when expressed as initials; and since the writer got the last name wrong, too, Thomas never again trusted the media.

What the f-f-f... What's that supposed to mean? the reporter sputtered. The TV cameraman behind him was laughing. TV people ranked radio people, so laughing was all right. What's 'f-f-f' supposed to mean? Lester asked. He turned away and pointed to a woman wearing glasses the size of compact discs. You. What precautions should women in the Twin Cities take? She had an improbably smooth delivery, with great round O's, as though she were reading for a play.

Ayn Rand's A Selfish Christmas (1951) In this hour-long radio drama, Santa struggles with the increasing demands of providing gifts

You can get in a car in Maine and drive all the way to California and hear the same Top 40 songs on the same chain broadcasters," bemoaned the report.

When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact that every word of dialogue is recreated. And I have projected future scenes, just as complete and convincing--scenes that will never take place. I've written short stories in my mind, chuckling at my own humor, saddened or stimulated by structure or content.

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.

Life is not an mp3 player where you can play what you want, but life is a radio where you have to enjoy what is being played.

Cooper took a sip of coffee. It was burned and watery. "You hear there was another bombing? Philadelphia this time. I was listening to the radio on the way in. Talk radio, some redneck. He said a war was coming. Told us to open our eyes.

The workroom radio, tuned to FM 88.9, emitted Muddy Waters's throaty warbling. A rez station, WOJB did its best to hit every level of musical taste. Absolute bite-ya-in-the-ass blues was aired only during the wee hours. Tracker's favorite time and music.

subject that got people aroused . . . was Who Owns America? . . . They had a chart going . . . filling in connections between the big local contractors and the steel companies and the city and county governments and the unions . . . and the downtown merchants. . . . They found they still did not know who owned obvious centers of power like the banks. They did not know who owned the local paper. Or the radio stations.

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.

I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.

There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it.

Every time I hear a song that reminds me of my ex I have a strong erg to punch the radio.

The longest word in the english language is the one that follows the phrase, 'And now a word from our sponsor'.

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

James's analogy to illustrate the mind-brain relationship: equating "mind" with "brain" is as illogical as listening to music on a radio, demolishing the radio's receiver, and thereby concluding that the radio was creating the music.

Father Knows Best" started as a radio sitcom in 1949 as "Father Knows Best?" When it moved to TV in 1954, the producers were apparently more confident in dad's wisdom and the question mark was left behind.

This being 1962, no one thought it odd to have a mime program on radio.

sure where this was going. "So," his uncle continued, "I think to myself that if the German radio hunters are looking for illegal radios broadcasting from illegal antennas, we might fool them by connecting our illegal radio to

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!