Radio Stations Quotes

• I watched her face switch among the radio stations of memory

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Radio, Faces

  Diane Ackerman (2017). “The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in) (Movie Tie-in Editions)”, p.291, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.

  Charles Frazier

  Teenage, Wind, Two

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• I wanted to see if you could put a prototype radio station on the Internet so you wouldnt have to invest $50 million or $100 million or $150 million to buy a transmitter and a frequency.

  Tom Leykis

  Radio, Internet, Wanted

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• I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Country, Radio, Grew Up

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• When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Music, Thinking, People

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• Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, 'hits.' What's commercially viable gets recycled, endlessly repeated, and as a result of that, the progressive music can't break in.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Play, Labels, Records

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• If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.

  Joe Strummer

  Nice, Cat, Kitchen

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• When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Country, United States

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• To be a DJ was to be God. To be a DJ at an alternative public radio station ? That was being God with a mission. It was thinking you were the first person to discover The Clash and you had to spread the word.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Thinking, Alternatives, Radio

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Artist, Media, Color

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• We all need to stomp out balkanization. No Spanish radio stations, no Spanish billboards, no Spanish TV stations, no Spanish newspapers. This is America, speak English.

  John Huppenthal

  Speak English, America, Needs

  "Arizona Superintendent Apologizes For Racist Posts As Calls For His Resignation Grow", www.foxnews.com. June 26, 2014.

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• Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Song, Doors, Judging

  "Think fast" By Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2005.

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• Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear.

  Susan Tedeschi

  Music, People, Radio

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• New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.

  Fred Wilson

  New York, Real, Technology

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• The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.

  Angie Stone

  College, Voice, Radio

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• That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

  Johnny Cash

  Dream, Growing Up, Air

  "Music's Man in Black". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.

  James Dobson

  Country, America, People

  "Dr. James Dobson Sets Record Straight". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2009.

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• So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Jobs, School, Weekend

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• Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell.

  Al Franken

  Mean, Radio, Stations

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• I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Song, Islands, Long

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• In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

  Bruno Mars

  Band, Hawaii, Bob

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• He was Jimi Hendrix! He didn't sound like anybody else but himself. He was like Charlie Parker in his way of playing, he played well, he was a person that made waves. When you heard Jimi Hendrix you knew it was Jimi Hendrix, he introduced himself in his instrument... You know, many radio stations play records and a lot of the times they don't call out the names who you just listened to, but when they play Jimi Hendrix, you don't have to tell me, [you know] it's Jimi Hendrix.

  B. B. King

  Music, Play, Names

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• Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.

  Napoleon Hill

  Home, America, People

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• Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play 'Christmas In Dixie' by Alabama. I always remember lovin' that song.

  Kenny Chesney

  Song, Play, Alabama

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• Yesterday, President Obama prank-called a Washington radio station, calling himself 'Barry from D.C.' Then, just to mess with him, Obama called Glenn Beck's radio show as 'B. Hussein from Kenya.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Yesterday, President, Kenya

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