Radio Quotes · Page 17

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

— Elvis Presley

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

— Dolly Parton

I remember Chicago well. That's where I started in radio in 1930 and it snowed a lot that year, too.

— Gene Autry

Performing on radio is great, you roll up with no makeup in pyjamas and nobody will know.

— Mel Giedroyc

There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.

— Sia Furler

I love singing along to the radio while I'm riding in the back of a squad car.

— Dane Cook

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

— Shane Smith

Comedy thrives on immediacy and I got fed up waiting months to find out if a radio sketch show was being commissioned.

— Richard Herring

Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when…

— Edward R. Murrow

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game…

— Sheryl Crow

Of course, growing up, you listen to your favorite people on the radio and you want to have an album of your…

— Gabby Barrett

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these…

— Ryan Seacrest

To know that I was being heard on the radio, it made me feel as if I was, I guess, spread across…

— Rakim

After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system…

— Michael Bond

We've never tried to write radio hits. If I hear our song on the radio, it's cool, and I'm proud, but it's…

— Zacky Vengeance

I'm trying to laugh uncontrollably with whoever I'm making a song with because whatever we just listened to that we just came…

— Eric Benet

Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big…

— Jack Kerouac

I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I…

— Charles Grodin

I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music…

— Kaskade

The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an…

— Octavio Paz

Television and radio are what I call sequential media; they're not simultaneous media. With simultaneous media, you can scan your eye down…

— Harold Evans

Traditionally, when we lived here [in Portland], we have a record player in the living room, and there's lots of stuff playing,…

— Stephen Malkmus

Glenn and I were listening to a radio show in the car, and he said, "Glass Eye Pix should do radio plays."…

— Larry Fessenden

There's nothing like live radio. I like the challenge. Throw it my way. Let me go!

— Montel Williams

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

— Michael Stipe

The world is collapsing around our ears, I turned up the radio, but I can't hear.

— REM

It used to be radio was the place that young people gathered to get their information.

— Drew Pinsky

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

— Haruki Murakami

I've always loved radio. Television scares me, because I'm older.

— John Tesh

When I started playing music, all I was hearing was whatever was on the radio.

— Ryan Ross

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

— Helen McCrory

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.

— Linda Ronstadt

To be successful in talk radio, you have to have a conservative audience as well. Not enough liberals listen to it.

— Alan Colmes

I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.

— Rod Taylor

Dear Hotel People: We don't need a cheeseball clock-radio. WE NEED PLACES TO PLUG STUFF IN. Thank you.

— Dave Barry

I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.

— Garth Brooks

I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to…

— Faith Hill

I'm not willing to sacrifice what I've learned and what I'm about just to get played on radio.

— Lorrie Morgan