Radio Quotes - Page 11

• I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.

  Bob Gunton

  Gun, Giving, Enemy

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

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• I don't care if I ever hit radio, and I don't care if I ever get any bigger than this. I just wanna stand up for artistry because that's what really matters in music

  Christofer Drew

  Matter, Care, Bigger

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• I don't like to cook. I can make a TV dinner taste like radio.

  Phyllis Diller

  Dinner, Taste, Tvs

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• Radio voices have a solid, even texture.

  Dev Hynes

  Voice, Texture

  "For Dev Hynes, Every Sound Is A Color". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

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• One of the things that makes me happiest and proudest is that the talk radio venue, the whole market has expanded. There are all kinds of people doing it now.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Kind, Venues

  "Rush Limbaugh Gives Sean a Rare Interview". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 18, 2005.

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• For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.

  Teddy Thompson

  Long, People, Trying

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• A lot of artists come into the game with a radio record, but they don't establish the fans as fans of their style of music. It's just that they're a fan of that song, and after that song plays out, it's real hard for 'em.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Song, Real, Artist

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when media conglomerates dominate the airwaves, independent media like Citizen Radio is vital to national discourse.

  Noam Chomsky

  Independent, Media, Political

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• We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Media, Information, Entertainment

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Rochelle Chadakoff, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962”

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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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• A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an audience, especially with young kids, especially because it [classical music] is not that popular. You don't see it on TV, you don't hear it on radio, so you really gotta put an effort into promoting classical music.

  David Garrett

  Kids, Order, Effort

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.

  Joy Behar

  Daughter, Mother, Sex

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• Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Character, Color, Imagination

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Home, Men

  Martha Gellhorn (1959). “The Face of War”

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• I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Fighting, Thinking

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 7, 2015.

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• The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, "For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody - and make them pay through the nose."

  Andrew Tobias

  Cost, Noses, Lines

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Hate, Teaching, School

  Patricia J. Williams (1995). “The Rooster's Egg”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• We [Desaparecidos] have to make the message and the music and the packaging as appealing as possible - as Taco Bell as possible: mediocre and no one can be offended by it and everyone can sort of enjoy it and we can play it on the radio.

  Conor Oberst

  Play, Taco Bell, Packaging

  Source: www.ew.com

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• They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, Voice, Giving

  Song: Radio, Radio, Album: This Year's Model, 1978

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• Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.

  Elaine Paige

  Littles, Noise, Awful

  "Show Girl". www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2000.

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• The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.

  Teddy Thompson

  Mind, Hitting, Slim

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• I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?

  Elana Dykewomon

  Strong, Mean, Home

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• I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes.

  Chris Rock

  Likes, Comedy, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths - half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.

  Bill Moyers

  Lying, Home, Weather

  "Now" on PBS with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. December 17, 2004.

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• In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Believe, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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