Quotes About Radio

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.

I'm not prepared to be governor of New York. I'm a radio guy; I do a radio show. A radio show is entertainment. You need to move it along. When does a politician move anything along?

What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about poor people,' which is a large part of what you hear of corporate hip-hop on the radio.

I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.

I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. You know what I'm saying? Like, c'mon.

Getting to shake hands, pose for pictures, sign books, and interact with people who listen to our radio shows is a blast.

I was given a Roberts digital radio by my mum and dad. I think it's my favorite possession.

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

I still listen to Radio 1. I never really matured or progressed to Radio 2 or even Radio 4, like most of my contemporaries.

It was a beauty contest in the '80s. If they played two women back to back on the radio, it was almost a scandal.

Of all the people I've ever met that I got a bit tongue-tied around was Chris Moyles. And it was just down the corridor at Radio X. I grew up listening to him, in the car on the way to school, and that voice, you feel like you wake up with him.

I'm a country girl; I like country music. That's what my car radio is on.

I probably learned most of my craft from singing to the radio.

I don't get why radio shows allow artists to do shows without creative control, without any art direction at all. Instead of that, I get their press guys, their camera guys to be my backdrop of my show.

The communication between the driver, the spotter and the crew chief is very key. You can't have people talking at the same time, so it's like a choreographed radio call of a baseball game.

I grew up listening to the Light Crust Doughboys on WBAP.

When I first heard my song on the radio, I started crying. My baby was out there, and it all became very real.

On matinee days I could never be sure I'd make the curtain for the matinee. I'd put on my makeup in the morning, rush to the studio and do the radio shows,then try to get across town before the curtain went up.

I don't want to go back to Capital Radio. I don't want to go back to rolling in custard with Sheena Easton and Annie Lennox.

I was done with music and I became very cynical about the industry and Top 40 radio. I didn't even want to look at music for a while, and did a course in screen-writing.

Airplanes don't just disappear - certainly not these days with all the powerful communication systems, radio and satellite tracking, and filmless cameras which operate almost indefinitely and possess huge storage capacities.

Before I even started to school, I sometimes would hide behind the radio, which would be sitting on a table, and pretend that I was on the air and try to fool people who came by to listen.

One thing that I can tell you that we have not done very well is to build in broadcast capability into the network, and we don't take advantage of broadcast radio.

Well, rock used to be the only game in town in terms of radio and what the kids listen to. Now I think there was a big hip-hop takeover, and pop music, it became mechanical and computer-y.