Radio Quotes - Page 3

I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.

There was not a lot of dialogue. The titles were just to keep you up. It's the visual stimulation that hits the audience. That's the reason for film. Otherwise, we might as well turn the light out and call it radio.

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.

Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

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.

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.

I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better.

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

Radio... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people... who fortunately can't reach me.

I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.