Quotes About Radio

Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of the job on air. It's okay if they haven't, but it's always better to be prepared for what's coming.

There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

My mother, Jeanne, was a TV and radio presenter in Jamaica. Bob Marley used to appear on her shows all the time and so she knew him quite well.

I was a radio presenter in Dubai for five years.

John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

Doing radio commercials was how I was really able to leave my day job.

I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.

I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and said, 'Your song's on the radio in the drafting department!'

All that pop that you see on the radio? It's just the worst crud I've ever heard in my life. It's designed to make money, and that's about it.

I don't even want my music on mainstream radio. They don't deserve it. They destroy careers.

Gunsmoke' had been a successful radio show for many years before and I was determined to go with it on TV.

Nothing beats an 'Archers' fan for their levels of devotion. I think it's because it's radio, and you obviously conjure up an image of the character that is so powerful.

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

We can't be dictated to by radio. Radio needs to play what we send them.

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

When you find real jazz on the radio dial, it comes in all static-y. It's just like tap dancers. You have to go uptown to find the real hoofers. We only come to midtown if we're called upon.

Radio dramas have disappeared. What we do have now is books on tape, which I find wonderful. I've done some of those. Otherwise, radio acting is now gone.

I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

I couldn't afford to go to the record store to buy new tapes, so I'd tape everything off the radio. Just hit record when my song came on. I used to take my mom's tapes and tape over them. I had a nice little collection. Had my own Stephen Jackson mixtapes off the radio!

My cousin used to make fun of me for liking stuff like C+C Music Factory. I didn't have any tapes; I just liked their song on the radio. We liked that because that was what we had access to.

It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.

I know I'm not everyone's taste and that's fine, and that is the beauty of digital and radio that you can find what you want to listen to.