Quotes About Radio

It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.

They are going to be playing Shaggy and Scooby-Doo for eons and eons, and they're going to forget Casey Kasem - unless they happen to step on his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I'll be one of those guys people say, 'Who's that?' about. And someone else will say, 'He's just some guy who used to be on the radio.'

Radio is being dominated by records that are 120 beats per minute. R&B is about groove and soul.

My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.

I would call myself a radio performer who has just jumped in front of the camera and is very happy.

I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

I think that pop music in general sometimes like to keep things a bit more hidden, and, you know, you censor and you polish to make it fit more people or to not be too vulgar or make sure of, 'Can this really play on the radio?' And I like not doing that.

I just love doing radio. I've learned to be more vulnerable through radio than even I've been through books and writing lyrics. It's a different type of experience where, if I'm writing a lyric, I can sort of hide behind it a little bit.

We have made such great friends at country radio. I think they love the honesty of 'Fly' and how raw and vulnerable it is.

I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me.

My favorite time at NPR has been 'Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!' It was loads of fun and gave me a chance to meet and talk in person to the audiences that I felt I had known for so many years on the air.

'Wait, Wait' has been great. The humor is there, and we get to do a lot of action.

I fantasized doing something like 'Wait, Wait.'

That's what I love about the Internet - instead of having to wait on radio to play your song or TV to play your video, I can use the Internet as a tool to get my music out earlier.

I essentially grew up listening to Radio 1, the chart show in particular. It was a routine, as for many young people. Every Sunday, I waited patiently to be told who was on top.

My mami and papi love my music. They're always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume - and turn it back down when it's over.

We've been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M.

Every morning when I wake up, I listen to 'The Brian Lehrer Show' on WNYC.

Breakfast is a peaceful moment for me, so I never have the radio on, no music, no noise around. The only noise that is permitted is people's voices. It's a way for me to wake up without too much of a high speed feeling.

I love doing 'The Breakfast Show,' I like waking up with people and it will be hard to stop.

My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.

I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.

I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.