Quotes About Radio

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.

Well, people can get advice almost anywhere, but they can't find a companion almost anywhere. And far more than being an advice-giver or somebody who just plays sappy love songs, I really am a companion on the radio at night.

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

Ever since the Dixie Chicks, the female perspective on country radio has been love songs. I love love songs, but we do have more to talk about, so it's nice that other perspectives are coming back.

I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

I almost never listen to the radio.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.

When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional baseball player instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

Radio is a hungry monster that eats very fast.

I love hooks, but getting radio airplay has never been a concern to me while I'm writing. That would be a very stifling and imprisoning way of writing music.

I went into radio in 1965 when I got a license for CJOR 600 AM. It was my second business.