Beats Quote by Margaret Atwood

“Loving music had pushed all of us off the track- away from the normal pursuit of career, mate, and family, on an endless quest…

— Ann Powers

“When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact that every…

— John Steinbeck

So, if I ever find myself hankering for the long, respectful silences of the olden days, I remind myself that classical music broadcasting was…

— Alexander Armstrong

“I had forgotten about the pleasures of college radio, the exquisite randomness of what got played, the twenty-minute between-songs banter of nineteen-year-olds, the smack…

— Piper Kerman

I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

— Martin Milner

“You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at its distortions.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Sometimes you happen to run across a brilliant run of radio songs, where each tie one station goes to commercial, you scan to another…

— John Green

“THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO You like music? How would I not”

— Ernest Hemingway

Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.

— Artie Shaw

“That’s the trouble these days, too much Sax and Violins in the theatre.”

— Tony Rattigan

That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like…

— Garrison Keillor

I'd always loved radio.

— Harry Shearer