Radio Quotes - Page 40

• I don't really like listening to the radio so much.

  Tom Waits

  Listening

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

  Rod Stewart

  Sleep, Littles, Next

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• Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Teaching, Reading

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• Ive heard some people say that Im selling out, but Im not. If I hadnt done Black Radio, and just kept on doing just piano trio stuff, I wouldnt be honest with myself; Id be doing it to please other people. That would be selling out.

  Robert Glasper

  Piano, People, Black

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• Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

  Al Franken

  Needs, Stuff, Veteran

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  Lady Gaga

  Song, Art, Queens

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• The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

  Alison Gopnik

  Improvement, Telegraph, Effects

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• I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

  Ellie Goulding

  Voice, House, Age

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

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• I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

  Conor Oberst

  Rocks, Indie Rock, Car

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• I rarely listen to commercial radio, and when I do, I'm shocked by how many ads there are, and how annoying they are, and how bad the radio station usually is.

  Susan Orlean

  Annoying, Ads, Shocked

  "Airwaves" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 10, 2011.

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• You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!

  Donny Osmond

  Player, Artist, Wind

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• ... When I heard "Pride and Joy" by Stevie Ray Vaughn on the radio, I just said "Hallelujah" .. he was just so good and strong and he would not be denied... he single handedly brought guitar and blues oriented music back to the marketplace

  Richard Betts

  Music, Strong, Pride

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• My songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the way they were recorded is the old Nashville way ... they sound as country or more country than a lot of things that are on country radio.

  Neil Young

  Music, Country, Song

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• If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they don’t let us speak, if they kill all the priests and the bishop too, and you are left, a people without priests, each one of you must be God’s microphone, each one of you must be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is one baptized person. And that one baptized person who is left in the world is responsible before the world for holding aloft the banner of the Lord’s truth and of his divine justice.

  Oscar Romero

  Divine Justice, Long, People

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• Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Healing, Recovery, Years

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• Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

  Amos Lee

  Country, Artist, Support

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• If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.

  Max Levchin

  Two, Agents, Slides

  "Max Levchin on Slide’s big virtual goods bet, scams and — mating". Interview with Kim-Mai Cutler, venturebeat.com. November 5, 2009.

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• I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Thinking, Play, Limits

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2007.

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• I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.

  Paul McDonald

  Hate, Track, Car

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• One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Thinking, Media, Average

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• So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Names, Government, People

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• Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Yeah, Showers

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• I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

  Jason Newsted

  Real, Thinking, Play

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• I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Children, Engineering, Building

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• I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.

  Keith Urban

  Song, Apology, Fans

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