1540 Am Radio Quotes

Radio is powerful not because of the microphones, but the one who sits behind the microphones ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When radio keeps silent, our ears shall never hear the real details! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger. ~ Casey Kasem

radio is what moves through the microphone and speakers into the ears of the discerning listener. Radio is what it transmits to the listener at any moment in time. Who sits behind the microphone makes the microphone worth the ears of great and noble listeners. The impact of radio lies less in the name of the radio and much in what it transmits each passing second ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio. ~ Phil Rizzuto

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

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA. ~ Neil Gaiman

I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio. ~ Bill Nighy

MAKE WAVES WITH ME! My talk's not cheap, but sponsorship is inexpensive and tax-deductible. ~ Lisa Tolliver

I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory ~ Diane Ackerman

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

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station. ~ Jonathan Winters

I have two syndicated radio shows though United Stations Radio Network. ~ Nina Blackwood

I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all. ~ Imelda Staunton

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

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'. ~ Ben Schott

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part. ~ Kristin Hersh

Mom sez I like talk radio, teaching, and consulting 'cuz they ensure captive audiences. True or not (let Freudians decide), I'm driven by a "four eyed" mission to inform, instruct, intrigue, and inspire. Moreover, I like interactivity: If you're listening, I'm listening. Talk with me! ~ Lisa Tolliver

I have a weird sense that people ten years younger than me don't own a radio, or maybe they own a radio, but they don't call it a radio. ~ Jad Abumrad

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio. ~ Tom Araya

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. ~ Casey Kasem

There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam. ~ Rahul Dravid

Radio for years and years looked at the same pool of talent. I always believed there were other people in the world that could do radio shows. ~ Scott Greenstein

I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures. ~ Larry King

I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama. ~ Martin Milner

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. ~ Howard Stern

My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got. ~ Trent Reznor

I've always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where I was a DJ and stuff like that. ~ Scott Aukerman

When I was a kid I had a friend who worked in a radio station. Whenever we walked under a bridge, you couldn't hear what he said. ~ Steven Wright

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country. ~ Garrett Hedlund

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. ~ Paul Smith

It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks. ~ Ira Glass

My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio. ~ Robin Thicke

Radio dramas have disappeared. What we do have now is books on tape, which I find wonderful. I've done some of those. Otherwise, radio acting is now gone. ~ George Takei

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe. ~ Juan Williams

I'm a radio nerd. I've loved radio since I was a kid. I'm a huge Howard Stern fan. ~ Brad Listi

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. ~ Fred Allen

I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options. ~ Rush Limbaugh

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure. ~ John Hodgman

Going down the old mine with a transistor radio. ~ Van Morrison

I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better. ~ Alistair Cooke

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

This is nothin for the radio ... but they'll still play it though ~ Drake

In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio. ~ Guglielmo Marconi

CDC Considers Counseling Males Of All Ages On Circumcision. ~ National Public Radio

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. ~ Mel Tillis

Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you. ~ Shirley Manson

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why. ~ Larry King

Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists. ~ Anthony Kiedis

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio. ~ Sam Donaldson

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

I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day. ~ R. Kelly

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. ~ Susan Orlean

I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me. ~ Allen Funt

The podcast was kind of an afterthought, because I was just excited about being on the radio. Then I found that the podcast listenership is some 20 times what people are listening to on the radio. ~ Scott Aukerman

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. ~ Bonnie Raitt

You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio. ~ Nayvadius Cash

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media. ~ Paul Weyrich

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker. ~ Les Paul

When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio. ~ Vin Scully

I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go. ~ Alan Dale

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

I've shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest's. ~ Shakira

In Europe, it's more common to hear aggressive dance tracks on the radio. ~ Martin Garrix

It's always pretty amazing to hear your own voice on the radio. ~ Daya

I don't really like listening to the radio so much. ~ Tom Waits

I like to argue with the radio. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

The radio comes back even louder than you remember it. ~ Stephen Chbosky

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

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on. ~ Victoria Wood

I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience. ~ Andrew W.K.

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk. ~ Fran Lebowitz

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don't really remember until you're on the radio again, sometimes in your old radio station and sitting with the guys you used to work with and you go, 'Oh yeah, I can't say these things anymore. I'm handcuffed.' ~ Jimmy Kimmel

Radio astronomy reflects our fascination with how audio can be used to understand information or ideas. Just as scientists visualize data through charts and pictures, we can use 'data sonification' to translate radio signals into sound that help us better understand some of our most enigmatic planetary systems. ~ Honor Harger

I fell in love with radio once I started working there, and I never stopped. ~ Terrence J

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away. ~ Brandon Boyd

I have the perfect face for radio. ~ Virginia Graham

I never thought radio would fizzle out. ~ Dick Van Patten

I listen to NPR when I listen to the radio, but I don't listen to the radio that much. You know, I listen to Garrison Keillor, I listen to 'Prairie Home Companion.' ~ Al Franken

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television. ~ Michael Medved

For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing. ~ Brendan O'Carroll

In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio. ~ Kabir Bedi

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV. ~ Richard Corliss

It feels so satisfying to hear a song I wrote come out of the radio. ~ Ashton Shepherd

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

No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records. ~ Nas

Don't ever call me a bottler on the radio with thousands of people listening ~ Jamie Carragher

I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia. ~ Elvis Presley

What a world, eh? Sometimes I wish I could just live somewhere on Radio 4. ~ Ben Elton

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

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape. ~ Tamsin Greig

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy. ~ Martin Ryle

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. ~ Carrie Vaughn

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible. ~ Lord Kelvin

That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials. ~ Richard Roeper

TV didn't kill radio, it just added something new to the mix. ~ Douglas Coupland

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio. ~ Jessica Sanchez

Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news? ~ Douglas Adams

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. ~ Johnny Carson