Radio Quotes - Page 15

You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.

Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear.

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 thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

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

The radio has nothing to do with metal's existence or non-existence. It's for trend only.

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.

The sound of the radio fades to nothing because the waves just can't reach

I didn't start talk radio until '95 in L.A. The show was very successful, and they actually tried to syndicate it nationally, but I couldn't get stations. It was like, "We don't care that she's funny and she's got great ratings. She's liberal!"

It's not only progressives who listen to progressive radio.

I don't care about the clubs, I don't care about the radio, all I care about is getting my digital downloads.

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

When I started in radio, I worked for free. I lived at the radio station. Then I worked for very little money.

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

The downloads, the licensing, commercials, radio - it's made me more money than any song I've ever written, and it only went to No. 26. It wasn't a big hit at all. But it's a career song ["I Can't Drive 55"].

One of the things that makes me happiest and proudest is that the talk radio venue, the whole market has expanded. There are all kinds of people doing it now.

I've never, like some people are, been embarrassed to be in radio.

If we don't like a radio or TV show, we turn it off. If the left don't like it, they try to shut it down.

I wanted to be a success in radio. There was no way it was ever gonna happen if I stayed where I was born. It was not possible. Nothing against where I was born. Nothing against the people there. It just wasn't possible.

Ninety percent of my thoughts are, "How will this work on the radio?"

It's easier to list Hollywood and TV people who don't have a radio show now, take less time to do that than to list those who do.