Top 540 Radio Quotes

I was really amazed when I started hearing ‘Songbird’ on the radio. I couldn’t believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn’t anything like it on the radio at the time.

They think my life is glamourous. It’s not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That’s the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that’s it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.

I talk about weird stuff. What I do only works at night, only on the radio.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there’s no audience. TV, there’s no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it’s a silent response.

Aeroplanes interested me, and at the outbreak of the Second World War, I joined the RAF as a volunteer reservist. I took the opportunity of studying the books which the RAF made available for radio mechanics and looked forward to an interesting course in radio.

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people’s songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels – whatever little girls sing about.

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

I grew up listening to AM radio in the ’70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive.

I’m not sure how young kids get to the point where they’re memorizing and knowing songs, but I knew the words to ‘Missing You’ from John Waite probably from when I was three years old. For whatever reason, that was the song that I gravitated toward when it was on the radio and I was driving around with my mom.

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you’re on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you’re on the right.

I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they’ve got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I’m not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that’s the difference, I think.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It’s sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

I even played Jack Webb’s partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while.

I barely listen to the radio, to be honest. I don’t want anything infiltrating my ears that I don’t want to possibly put out in my song.

I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn’t know why he was crying.

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ‘ buzz ‘ about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.

The first science fiction show on television was ‘Tales Of Tomorrow’ using scripts from the radio show ‘X-1’ which used stories from ‘Galaxy Magazine’ as its source material.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn’t know we were weird. We didn’t know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the 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.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.

A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.

I mean that’d be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don’t take that for granted.

I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.

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.

I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.

True, I drive an Italian sports car around Hollywood, but the radio is tuned to a country-and-Western station.

I grew up on a farm, and we didn’t have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn’t inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

I’m not a big radio listener.

I’ve never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I’m just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is, I think, what people often assume. I’ve never felt that way.

I finally learned to accept that I can’t make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.

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

I believe in legacy. And I believe in making the radio sound better. If I gotta listen to it, I want it to sound good.

I have to thank country radio for believing in me.

Radio’s a scary thing for me. It’s dope to be on there.

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it’s not really my bag. I’ve been listening to the radio since we’ve been touring the past month, because we don’t get it most of the time.

I grew up on radio, not TV.

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

I had maybe heard ‘The Times Are A-Changing’ on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.

But in those days – in the mid-’50s, early ’60s – there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn’t full time.

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

I find that I can’t work and listen to radio – either I find I don’t like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

In the ’80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn’t have a hit record you weren’t going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio – much to my parent’s disapproval.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.

I never watch TV. I’m a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.

All India radio was worldwide.

Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.