Radio Quotes

Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played.

In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.

You ARE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'Yeah,' said Zaphod, 'but don't shout it out or they'll all want one.' 'THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?' 'No, just A Zaphod Beeblebrox, didn't you hear I come in six packs?' 'But sir,' it squealed, 'I just heard on the sub-ether radio report. It said you were dead...' 'Yeah, that's right, I just haven't stopped moving yet.

Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put it on the radio, then you've heard it a million times when you're driving from your shitty job to your shitty house. It's indoctrination, it's sad.

In Europe, it's more common to hear aggressive dance tracks on the radio.

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

The new national campfire - radio.

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

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

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.

I feel like you have to constantly keep proving yourself, and you have to constantly keep getting out there and showing them you're more than just that one song on the radio that's just playing. And that's what I had to do the first time around; I had to keep going out there and keep performing live.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you've got to create it.

Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.

John R. told me you don't work for the radio station. You work for the people out there.

There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.

I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business so that's literally 70 years.

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

the power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

You should never try to make a record and say it's for the radio, you should just make it, and then if it happens to be that, that's what it happens to be.

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.