Quotes About Radio

The success of 'Take Me To Church,' I never imagined it. I never imagined that it would work on radio, that it would find its way onto the charts, even at home and certainly not in America.

Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to fight invasion.

I used to think of 'alternative rock' as a radio format, kind of the way 'indie rock' used to have more meaning. But it means different things depending on where you are or what country you're in.

I don't get played on radio anymore. Once you're over 40, forget it.

On radio there's an obligation to be funny or interesting, and ideally both.

The goal for me has always been to learn how to express myself in radio and to have fun doing it and work with whatever contingencies arise.

Radio was my friend after 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good.'

I wanted to be a radio announcer.

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got bigger on the back end of that.

My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.

I've always been music-oriented. My dad was a musician, and I listened to the radio all of the time.

Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business.

It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.

If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs.

When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.

My first professional audition was for a radio play in Manchester. That was the first audition that I got. It was my first paid job, which I think was, like, £150, and I thought it was megabucks.

I was born in a radio world, and I got so much from it.

It's always pretty amazing to hear your own voice on the radio.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

We've been really lucky. We've gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord knows I don't do a whole lot to promote myself.

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.