Radio Quotes - Page 9

• I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.

  Greil Marcus

  Betrayal, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Talkin’ Bob Dylan". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 19, 2010.

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• The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.

  Lewis Mumford

  Children, School, Emotional

  Lewis Mumford (1974). “The Pentagon of Power”, Harcourt

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• A history of listening to Top 40 radio had left me with a ridiculous and clichéd notion of love. I had never entertained the feeling myself but knew that it meant never having to say you're sorry. It was a many-splendored thing. Love was a rose and a hammer. Both blind and all-seeing, it made the world go round.

  David Sedaris

  Love, Sorry, Rose

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• The radio has nothing to do with metal's existence or non-existence. It's for trend only.

  Steve "Lips" Kudlow

  Trends, Existence, Metals

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.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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• 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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• With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.

  Tom Hooper

  Emotional, Leader, Anxiety

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.

  Billy Joel

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

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• John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, Guy, Police

  "Keating in the Hot Seat". Interview with Kerry O'Brien, www.abc.net.au. August 06, 2008.

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• I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Thinking, Voice, Important

  "Luciano Pavarotti Is Dead at 71" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. September 6, 2007.

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• We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Song, Children, Book

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.

  George Harrison

  Children, Gossip, Secret

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• To live sanely in Los Angeles ... you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Art, Thinking, Voice

  Christopher Isherwood (1966). “Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses”

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• I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

  Donnie Simpson

  Son, Thinking, Generations

  "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010.

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• And Venus must be hot if the history of the solar system is not the history of no change for billions of years. And Venus was found hot, not room temperature as was thought until 1959. In 1961 it was detected with radio means that it is like something like 600 Farenheit and Mariner 2 was sent out to find out true or not true? It was found that even more it is full 800 [degrees Farenheit].

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Mean, Years, Degrees

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• I was working with mud and photographs and thread, eyelashes, carrots and acetone... I was throwing radios off buildings and... remember floating styrofoam commas down the Milwaukee River.

  William Wegman

  Eyelashes, Rivers, Floating

  William Wegman, Frédéric Paul, Fonds régional d'art contemporain Limousin (1993). “William Wegman, l'oeuvre photographique”, Frac Limousin

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• The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in hallucinations and dreams.

  Jeremy Narby

  Dream, Dna, Radio Waves

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.95, Penguin

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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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• She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Flying High, Sometimes

  Song: Sequel, Album: Sequel, 1981

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• The further conquest of space will make it possible, for example, to create systems of satellites making daily revolutions around our planet at an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers, and to assure universal communications and the relaying of radio and television transmissions. Such an arrangement might prove more useful, economically, than the construction of radio relay systems over the whole surface of the earth. The great accuracy of movement of these satellites will provide a reliable basis for solving navigational problems

  Sergei Korolev

  Communication, Space, Movement

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• Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.

  Paul Harvey

  Men, Harvey

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• People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Morning, Jobs

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Education, Light, Inspire

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• Fritzsche, radio propaganda chief, by manipulation of the truth goaded German public opinion into frenzied support of the regime and anesthetized the independent judgment of the population so that they did without question their masters' bidding.

  Hans Fritzsche

  Independent, Support, Public Opinion

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• When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good depending on how it's going that day.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Life Changing, Careers

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