Best 529 quotes in «radio quotes» category

[As a frontman ] I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.

As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

As I got older though I wanted a life of my own. The classical training was very demanding and thorough. It was a very sheltered existence. Even though I heard blues and gospel on the radio sometimes, it was always back to the piano and study and give recitals.

As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

As far am I'm concerned, I don't listen to radio anymore. They play the same ten songs over and over again, so why would I?

At home, the radio was a big source and the classic radio programs we would listen to like Amos and Andy and whatever other ones there were.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.

Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.

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 initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.

But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera.

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

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.

Caught in a bad romance. Whoaaa-oh-ooooh!" Nellie wailed along to the XM radio blaring from the enormous speakers. "Can I uncover my ears now?" Dan called from the back, where he was reclined across the leather seat. "Has Nellie stopped her Lady Gag Me impression?

[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

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.

By the way, for those who are listening, I absolutely define - I have a face for radio. Unfortunately, I've got a voice for print. So I apologize for the sandpaper you're listening to.

Every place has its own challenges. In Canada, we have blessings like grants, but we also have curses in the sense that when you start to do more urban classified music, we no longer have a single urban radio station left.

Everything on the radio is metaphorical in a bad way. But when I write a lyric, like "bang my box," that's pretty clear.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel.

Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.

Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

First of all, very few people listen to Hugh Hewitt, radio show, that`s the good news. Check out the ratings.

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be “old-time gospel preaching.” This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

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

File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff.

[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and radio.

God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.

From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap.

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?

Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock 'n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented.

He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.

He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio.

I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games.