Radio Quotes · Page 17

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.

— John Oates

That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.

— Lennart Meri

And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out…

— Ani DiFranco

I don't think any artist has really relied on music videos the way I do. It's almost like my radio.

— Lil Dicky

My mom listened to classic rock radio a lot so I heard the Eagles and I just confirmed that I hated them…

— Jesse Rutherford

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

— Talib Kweli

Honestly, most of the stuff I made for 'TV on the Radio,' I write in the studio.

— Kyp Malone

I always thought I would release an album and my songs would play on the radio. Now, the dream has come true.

— Rahul Vaidya

Some people buy records just to dance to 'em. Some people buy records to listen to the radio. And there's people that…

— DMX

The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but…

— Isaac Asimov

When I get back with band, the lights, and the whole production, that's me with the full artillery. A quick radio performance…

— Andy Grammer

It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country…

— Chely Wright

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio…

— Frank Ocean

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but…

— Stuart Symington

I always listened to the radio a lot, and I've always tried to capture some of that stuff in my music. But…

— Alex G

Where I lived, on Long Island, you had the radio stations that always played Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and…

— John Petrucci

I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed…

— John Kennedy Toole

I'm totally up for experimental music. I'm up for music that they don't play on the radio, and I take in all…

— Richard Ashcroft

The only thing contrived is the production - you can over-produce to the point you kill a good idea, you can under-produce…

— Ryan Tedder

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a…

— Salman Rushdie

For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard…

— Colin Linden

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like…

— Margaret Atwood

We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a…

— Jim Foglesong

The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the…

— Michael Leunig

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I basically got into the radio game 'cause I was looking to do something positive with my life.

— Charlamagne tha God

Radio in the U.K. is so formulaic. You've got commercial stations who play the same 20 songs all day.

— Keren Woodward

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

— Phil Donahue

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

— Abigail Washburn

Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

— Danger Mouse

Normally I don't have a scrap of makeup on me when I'm on the radio.

— Sara Cox

I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it.

— Laura Davies

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

— Caleb Shomo

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.

— David Byrne

The radio show is absolutely the most important thing. It always comes first.

— Bobby Bones

When I first heard my song on the radio, I started crying. My baby was out there, and it all became very…

— Sigrid

I love listening to games on the radio... you can't see what's going on

— Andy Townsend

Growing up, I heard as much E-40 and Mac Dre on the radio as I did 50 Cent. It's in our culture…

— G-Eazy

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

— Helen Gurley Brown