Radio Quotes · Page 22

I once interviewed Anthony Burgess on the radio. I played pop records between the conversation.

— David Hepworth

On radio there's an obligation to be funny or interesting, and ideally both.

— Frank Skinner

Ninety percent of my thoughts are, "How will this work on the radio?"

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Nas

When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.

— Ira Glass

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

— Randy West

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

— Ira Glass

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

— John Hodgman

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took…

— David Letterman

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't…

— Malcolm Turnbull

It was always meant to ease out of a big radio song and flow into the next one. Don't is the bridge…

— Ed Sheeran

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best…

— Ira Glass

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio…

— Ice T

I love making music, but I also love making music that's on the radio. In some circles, that is considered less artistic.…

— Kristian Bush

My brother and I were brought up sort of thinking that we were English. I remember hearing the poet Roy Campbell on…

— Justin Cartwright

I could give you a list of songs that I heard on the radio that I went right out and bought and…

— Richard Carpenter

I hear radio plays that I did 20 years ago and I can't bear it; I see things on telly that I…

— Caroline Quentin

I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am…

— Edward R. Murrow

Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at…

— Brian Evenson

I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's…

— Ben Mezrich

I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows,…

— Scott Aukerman

Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey…

— Reggie Jackson

I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you…

— Keith Urban

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early…

— Michelle Magorian

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

— Ronnie Spector

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

— Casey Kasem

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

— Ira Glass

I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.

— Gary Cherone

Through most of my life, music has been like a radio that plays and plays in my head.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

— T-Pain

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

— David Gergen

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

— Anonymous

I started off on 'The Cipha Sounds Effect' on Sirius. The whole station was just very male-dominated.

— Angela Yee

If you listen you can hear me through the radio In that bright white noise.

— Cobra Starship

Ever since I was able to consume entertainment, radio has been one of the main things I've devoured.

— Tim Key

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

— Martin Ryle

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

— Paul Weyrich

One of my favorite occupations is making radio/video edits. I love singles.

— Justus Kohncke

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

— Frank Ocean

Once Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings are not cool on country radio, it's time for a new format.

— Steven Van Zandt