Quotes About Radio

I wanted to do something that nobody else was doing. I didn't have a mentor. There were no other women on the radio.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

Before I had satellite radio installed in my car, I thought I would lose my mind listening to commercials and having limited choices on the dial. Your car is your home in L.A., so you've got to have some good stuff to listen to.

When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.

In 1978, I was in Paris - I was in someone's car and listening to the radio - and on comes Paco de Lucia. I'd never heard of this chap, and I just thought, 'I have to meet him.' And I was very lucky; I found him very quickly. Crazily enough, he happened to be in Paris!

When I moved to Los Angeles to be on the radio, there was an acting school on every corner. You can't be in L.A. and not be into acting.

When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music library, and so on.

I have a real issue with radio these days. I just am not into the current music.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care.

I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'

File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff.

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.