Radio Stations Quotes

• One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

  Ira Glass

  People, World, Speech

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.

  Toby Keith

  Song, Writing, Radio

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• Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.

  Patricia Penton Leimbach

  Car, Age, Radio

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• The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Lakes, Swans, Tchaikovsky

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Absurdistan”, p.181, Granta Books

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• I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.

  Andrew W.K.

  College, Radio, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networks, programs. Also, alternative newspapers, which exist all over the country. Also, cable TV programs, which are not dependent on commercial advertising. Also, the internet, which can reach millions of people by-passing the conventional media.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Discovery, Media

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.

  Dennis Prager

  Smart, Air, Gentleman

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• Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.

  Winona LaDuke

  Mother, Hard Work, Feet

  "Honor the Earth: The Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides". Short documentary narrated by Winona LaDuke, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2013.

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• You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations.

  Elon Musk

  Squares, Utah, Radio

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• I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Girl, Father, Home

  "First Lady LisaRaye McCoy-Misick: 'I'm Going to Get Through This'". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and one radio station. I couldn't even get my hands on good comic books. My aunt, who is a librarian, gave me Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie," and Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia." They were such incredible treasures to have in my somewhat mundane country life.

  Nick Offerman

  Country, Book, Kids

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• After I was married a year I remembered things like radio stations and forgot my husband.

  P.J. Wolfson

  Marriage, Husband, Years

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• All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.

  Neil Young

  Government, Radio, Gone

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, Culture

  Source: portside.org

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• Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet thats just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of Rolling Stone and a spotlight on The Tonight Show, that was enough.

  Teddy Thompson

  Stones, Succeed, Rolling

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• I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station - you just do, otherwise you don't know much about other people. You kind of have to learn a bit about yourself so you can work out how we all behave and why we do the things we do.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Thinking, Work Out, People

  Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

  Marc Andreessen

  Distance, Party, Phones

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Country, People, Way

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• The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

  Michael Rapaport

  New York, Father, Play

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• I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Years, Radio, New Work

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• But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

  Mel Tillis

  Country, Radio, Stations

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• Gone are the days when you'd have to tune in to a mad illegal radio station late at night to be able to hear the rapper of your choice. That's all changed now. That's all gone out of the window. And I feel like I represent that change. I represent the era of iPods and Shuffle and things like that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Night, Rapper, Ipods

  "British Rapper Tinie Tempah Gets Up Close & Personal With Serial Optimist". Interview with Rawiya Kameir, www.serialoptimist.com. December 16, 2010.

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• I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.

  Bobby Vinton

  Rocks, Jail, Records

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• When I started in radio, I worked for free. I lived at the radio station. Then I worked for very little money.

  Sean Hannity

  Radio, Littles, Little Money

  "Hillary Clinton's trust issues". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2015.

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• By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.

  Dave Barry

  Rocks, Upset, Radio

  Dave Barry (1991). “Turning 40”, Vintage

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