Radio Quotes

• TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

  Peggy Noonan

  Giving, Brain, Tvs

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• the power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

  Hallie Flanagan

  Media, Speak, Millions

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• Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.

  Lisa M

  Surround Yourself, Turns, Surround

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• Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.

  Harry von Zell

  World, Transformation, Intimate

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• Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Communication, Offering, World

  "Understanding Media : The Extensions of Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 261), 1964.

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• Radio is the playground of coincidence.

  Sarah Vowell

  Coincidence, Playgrounds

  Sarah Vowell (2013). “Radio On: A Listener's Diary”, p.18, St. Martin's Griffin

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• It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Funny, Actresses

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• I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better.

  Alistair Cooke

  Tvs

  "Why listening to football on the radio beats watching it on TV" by Tony Cowards, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2016.

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• Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

  Alex Blumberg

  Today, Tvs, Bigger

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

  Bob Edwards

  Listeners

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• Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

  Terry Wogan

  Imagination, Television, Contracts

  "Terry Wogan turned down for BBC2 job in 1965 by David Attenborough" by Jasper Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2016.

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• Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

  Casey Kasem

  Emotional, Levels, Connecting

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• I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.

  Courtney Love

  Inspired, Turns, Right Now

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• The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

  Richard Armour

  Offending, May, Telephones

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• Radio... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people... who fortunately can't reach me.

  Milton Berle

  People, Wonderful, Invention

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• Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

  Paul Fleischman

  Invisible, Listeners, Lurking

  Paul Fleischman (2003). “Seek”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Listening, Backgrounds, Shows

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Believe, Night

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• I fell in love with radio once I started working there, and I never stopped.

  Terrence J

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Benefits, Surprise, Realms

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• In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Science, Eras, New Era

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• I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Witty, Baby

  "The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"by R. Byrne, (p. 94), 2003.

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• I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Ears, Whispering, Intimacy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

  Gordon Smith

  Advertising, Grammy, Performers

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