Radio Quotes
1454 Radio quotes by 1121 unique authors
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Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.
— Spalding Gray
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As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical…
— Roy Harper
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With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.
— Arlo Guthrie
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My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on…
— Chad Channing
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
— Kate Bush
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The wonderful thing about having your songs on the radio is that people are going to go out to your concerts and buy your merchandise…
— Roger McGuinn
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Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We…
— Meghan Trainor
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Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.
— Mo Ibrahim
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I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.
— Jim Backus
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Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that…
— Kevin Hart
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Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie…
— Randy Bachman
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When I was younger, I won a radio at a church raffle.
— Gbenga Akinnagbe
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I saw Louis Armstrong perform at Albany State College on Radio Springs Road. He was probably the first famous individual I saw in concert. Unfortunately,…
— Ray Stevens
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I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little daughter and I…
— Unknown Author
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Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to…
— Ira Glass
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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…
— Ira Glass
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I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that.…
— David Sanborn
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts…
— Ira Glass
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Radio is for driving.
— Ira Glass
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in…
— Ira Glass
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
— Ira Glass
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In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
— Ira Glass
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
— Ira Glass
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John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.
— Susan Estrich
Who Wrote These Radio Quotes
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