Top 33 Radio Station Quotes

When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don’t really remember until you’re on the radio again, sometimes in your old radio station and sitting with the guys you used to work with and you go, ‘Oh yeah, I can’t say these things anymore. I’m handcuffed.’

I rarely listen to commercial radio, and when I do, I’m shocked by how many ads there are, and how annoying they are, and how bad the radio station usually is.

I started doing a half-hour Sunday night talk show on college radio station KUNV. That excited me more than anything I’d ever done. I went through the Yellow Pages to find people who seemed interesting. I’d goof on these people, but they were so excited to be on the radio that they didn’t even notice.

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did – played records.

The first time I ever had a song play on a legit radio station, I think I was about 13. It was a song of mine that I had written called ‘Young Blood.’

Gone are the days when you’d have to tune in to a mad illegal radio station late at night to be able to hear the rapper of your choice. That’s all changed now. That’s all gone out of the window. And I feel like I represent that change. I represent the era of iPods and Shuffle and things like that.

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

I grew up in Shanghai ’til I was 10 or 11, with one year in Tibet. When I was 5 or 6 years old, the American radio station came to Shanghai, and I used to love bebop and jazz, but I didn’t know where it came from.

When I was 12 or 13, the hyphy movement was beginning to bubble. And you had local acts such as the Federation or E-40, Mac Dre, and Too Short that the local radio station would play all the time. You’d hear E-40 as much as you’d hear Jay Z.

I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it’s all my songs, so that’s something to be excited about 24 hours a day.

I’m not a big country guy even though I’m from Nashville. I like some songs, but I wouldn’t turn on a country radio station or anything.

My mother had a radio show – a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

First job I had, I was 17 years old. I was primarily the mail room boy at the radio station. An FM station. And in those days, nobody listened to FM.

I think love songs are universal. It doesn’t mean a particular kind of music. It can be happy, sad or even celebratory. Having a radio station dedicated to love songs make sense.

All I wanted to do when I was a teenager was get dropped off at a radio station – one of the ones I listened to – and watch how the shows worked. After a point it was about showing up and driving people crazy, driving the van to promotions and sneaking on the air.

Boots radiates a unique kind of class – not a glamour, but enough self-respect to not degrade itself with an in-store radio station.

I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.

The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he’d be out creating songs, but he’s not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.

I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven’t heard before. It’s a very healthy thing to do. It’s strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you’re listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I’m serious. Listen to your radio station.

To be honest, I didn’t really enjoy much of uni life. I turned up for lectures, I got my degree – the rest of the time was spent at the radio station.

I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station – you just do, otherwise you don’t know much about other people. You kind of have to learn a bit about yourself so you can work out how we all behave and why we do the things we do.

When I was growing up, I could tell you everything about the three radio stations in Nashville. My 12- and 14-year-olds can’t tell me one radio station here but can tell me three on Sirius.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

People don’t listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung ‘Easy’ in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it’s a really nice blend.

I think you can only prepare yourself as much as you can, but no matter what, there will be curve balls. I had no idea I’d be taking a flight, landing, and heading straight to a radio station. I thought I might have time to curl my hair, have something to eat. No! You go right into things.

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late ’70s.

The faith world to me is like a radio station. It’s there. And if you want to plug in and listen to it, kind of tune into it, it can definitely be helpful. I don’t know if it’s an energy? I don’t know what it is, but it fascinates me.

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, ‘Please play it.’

I was in Ann Arbor, and I was told that this singer-songwriter guy wanted to meet me. It was Kurt Cobain. Nirvana had just made ‘Bleach.’ Kurt interviewed me on a college radio station. It was very strange. He was a fan of mine, and he gave me his album.

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

I never interned. The first job I ever had was a very low-paying job, and the guy running the radio station was so poor, he couldn’t pay us sometimes – so it’s almost like an internship, right?

My dad used to get to the nastiest letters. But somebody had to take the time to type it, stamp it, send it to him, send it to the radio station. And I mean nasty stuff. It’s not like nasty people with nasty opinions just popped up out of nowhere.