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Quotes About Radio

I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.
~ Bob Monkhouse
I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
~ Larry King
I'm like a hermit. Once I'm home, I'm home and when I ride in the car, I don't really listen to the radio as much.
~ Joanna Noelle Levesque
Terry Gross. I would rush home from high school to listen to Terry Gross.
~ John Hodgman
I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.
~ Paul Westerberg
Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.
~ Adam Schiff
I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.
~ Rudy Vallee
Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.
~ Anne Frank
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.
~ Tina Fey, Bossypants
You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.
~ Mel Karmazin
I got my start in silent radio.
~ Bob Monkhouse
XM radio doesn't have commercials, so after about thirty minutes of listening to it, I'm like, "What should I buy?"
~ Mitch Hedberg
I did a radio interview; the DJ's first question was "Who are you?" I had to think. Is this guy really deep, or did I drive to the wrong station?
~ Mitch Hedberg
When I was a kid I had a friend who worked in a radio station. Whenever we walked under a bridge, you couldn't hear what he said.
~ Steven Wright
When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot.
~ Larry Lujack
People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.
~ David Letterman
She wanted to read and talk and laugh and watch television and listen to the radio. She wanted to watch the world around her go by, and make up stories in her head about everything she saw...Like a princess in a carriage, surveying her kingdom, preferably one with a magical forest.
~ Jami Attenberg
Nobody wants to hear R&ampB. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.
~ Jamie Foxx
That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.
~ Janis Ian
The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
~ Jared Diamond
If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.
~ Jason Aldean
These once-secret files, located in the National Archives and finally declassified in 2000, prove that the coast guard, not the FBI, solved these Nazi radio circuits.
~ Jason Fagone
The Second World War did not begin with a gunshot or a bomb. It began with a feat of deception involving elements long familiar to Elizebeth Friedman— a code phrase, a radio station, and a murder . The men responsible were Nazis, and they belonged to the same part of the Nazi state that would soon attract Elizebeth's deep attention.
~ Jason Fagone