Quotes About Radio

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive.

It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars, skating rinks, and clubs.

I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

In the digital age we're in now, with satellite radio and Pandora and stuff like that, it's not about, "I listen to this kind of music." It's about, "I listen to good music and bad music."

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

The universe was alive with staccato radio chatter and art and curiosity and wonder and change.

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

the power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Hands folded under my chin, I drifted. A bruise-colored cloud hung over Koko Head. A transistor radio twanged on a seawall where a Hawaiian family picnicked on the sand. The sun-warmed shallow water had a strange boiled-vegetable taste. The moment was immense, still, glittering, mundane. I tried to fix each of its parts in memory. I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would.

Of all the communications technologies discussed in this book, radio and television are the most hierarchical; no preceding media could reach so many people so instantaneously and with so little feedback in the opposite direction.