Radio Quotes · Page 13

Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.

— Trent Lott

But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

— Ed Bradley

I think it's really cool when any of your songs play on the radio for the first time.

— Gabby Barrett

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

— Amos Lee

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

— Daniel Alarcon

I don't listen to the radio. I'd rather watch the television.

— Vera Lynn

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

— Garik Israelian

I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

— Rod Stewart

I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the…

— Ira Glass

I kept begging and begging for a car when I turned 16. My dad got me a 1971 Chevy pickup with no…

— Channing Frye

I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this…

— Russell Johnson

Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in…

— Frederic Raphael

The Pacifica Network is a vital cornerstone of our independent media landscape that depends on your financial support. Please donate today to…

— Amy Goodman

For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end…

— Garrison Keillor

So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did…

— Dick Van Dyke

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to…

— Huey Lewis

To live sanely in Los Angeles ... you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly…

— Christopher Isherwood

As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving…

— Martin Cooper

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got…

— Jim Butcher

I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the…

— Robert Hanbury Brown

Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as…

— Wendy Williams

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made…

— Henry Petroski

I did spend a lot of my childhood playing out movie scenarios in my head. I'd walk along the road, pretending like…

— Gerard Butler

I can tell when one of my songs is played on the radio because everybody just starts calling and texting me. It…

— Thundercat

It's in my blood to be on the radio every day. I've done it since I was 16 years old.

— Ryan Seacrest

I'm so excited and honoured to be joining the BBC Radio 2 family.

— Rylan Clark-Neal

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

— Don DeLillo

You never think your song's gonna be on the radio. Until it is.

— Ryan Hurd

Be it television, theatre, or radio, I can work in any medium. I don't want to limit myself to just movies.

— Shweta Tripathi

When I was a kid this is what I was listening to on my car radio - Lowell Fulsom singing 'Tramp.'

— Steve Miller

A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

— Omar N. Bradley

Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

— Bernard Goldberg

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

— Cliff Martinez

I'm a country girl; I like country music. That's what my car radio is on.

— Kim Dickens

The part that I loved about radio wasn't getting on the air - it was all this great stuff my listeners would…

— Delilah

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

— George Thorogood

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

— Richard Herring

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

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

— Drew Pinsky