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Quotes About Radio

General Tanz was as punctual as Radio Berlin, the State Railways, or death itself.
~ Hans Hellmut Kirst
He flipped through the music stations as he drove, searching for some nonexistent perfect song that would be, as Stevie Nicks might sing, "hauntingly familiar" yet not played so often as to beat it into submission. When he did find such a song—a rarity—it was always the last verse, and so the flipping would start anew. When
~ Harlan Coben
We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.
~ Charles Stanley
I hate when someone drives my car and resets all the radio presets. I don't understand it. If I was ever driving someone's car, I would never touch the things that were set.
~ Will Ferrell
There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.
~ Jean-Jacques Annaud
My local radio station, WHOC, Philadelphia, Mississippi - '1490 on your radio dial, a thousand watts of pure pleasure' - it was a beautiful station. And I loved everything I heard. But it was country music that touched my heart.
~ Marty Stuart
I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.
~ Alan Jackson
To get your own chatshow, with your name in the title, my arena tour last year - that was another goal for me - I got my own radio show, again with my name in the title... Apart from rehab, there isn't really much on my to-do list!
~ Alan Carr
When you make albums like I do, and it's based off fanfare and based off touring - I make these albums, and I get on the road. It's not really a radio-driven thing. I get on the road, and I see my fans, and I touch each and every last one of them.
~ Pusha T
I got my group together when I was about thirteen. We had a local radio show, and then we started touring for the principal of the high school - he was in the Lions Club, and so we were the entertainment.
~ Roy Orbison
I first got into cricket by watching Test matches on TV and listening to overseas tours on the radio. The sport really grabbed me - and it didn't matter that England weren't hugely successful back then.
~ James Anderson
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
~ Bob Edwards
I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.
~ Ira Glass
I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car.
~ Joanna Garcia
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.
~ Peter Maxwell Davies
Every town in America had at least one, two, or maybe three radio stations that played rock 24 hours a day. In England, we had a rock specialist on for two hours a week.
~ Joe Elliott
I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.
~ George Duke
If you look at my track record, there was nothing on radio that sounded like 'Oh Carolina,' 'Mr Bombastic' when they came out.
~ Shaggy
I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
~ Kate Bush
The last Simply Red album, 'Stay,' was good, but the first three tracks were designed for radio play. They were written to meet people's expectations of Simply Red.
~ Mick Hucknall
My father, Buddy Robinson, was superchic - a dandy. He always wore dinner jackets at night and espadrilles in the summer, but with his own flair. He was even well dressed when riding a tractor or listening to a ball game on the radio.
~ Tory Burch
The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.
~ Michael Scanlon
I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.
~ Tom Petty
I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.
~ Louise Jameson