Radio Quotes - Page 23

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can delight in the details, the humor, the particularities of speech, of dialects. Something is always lost in translation; we know instinctively that this is the case. A Radio Ambulante story looks at Latin America from the inside.

To me 30 isn't old. But it's definitely the beginning of no longer young. Because you notice little subtle things happen to you. You'll be in your car driving around listening to the radio and hear stuff like, That's was an oldie from The Clash.

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes.

In a radio interview [Ted] Cruz compared [Donald]Trump`s behavior to schoolyard children throwing taunts at each other, vowing not to take part.

Yes, anyone can log onto your "anonymous" band's MySpace page and hear the music. So, in theory you have gotten your music in front of 5 billion people. The other thing is that something has to cause them to go to those bands MySpace page, and it's that reliance on taste makers or radio, that is still very much a part of how music is sold and marketed.

Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.

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

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.

My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.

I imagined calling in to my own radio show: Yeah hi, I'm a werewolf, and I'm stuck in a cabin in the woods with another werewolf and a werewolf hunter.

To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a mission. It was thinking you were the first person to discover The Clash and you had to spread the word.

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.

I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

I still love the radio. I think the radio is still an important thing in music.

I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.

I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.