Radio Stations Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.

  Howard Stern

  Goes On, Toilets, Radio

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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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• 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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• Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet thats just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of Rolling Stone and a spotlight on The Tonight Show, that was enough.

  Teddy Thompson

  Stones, Succeed, Rolling

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• Kurt (Cobain) was a fan of my standup, which was pretty weird. I know when people hear that, it's kind of like finding out that Jimi Hendrix really liked Buddy Hackett, but he interviewed me at a college radio station before they broke and did Bleach. And then, like, about two years later, I was opening for Nirvana at these huge sports arenas.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Sports, College, Years

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. August 19, 2009.

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• All my life I've worked and I was so lucky to go from a radio station in Washington to the Dodgers and of course, it never stopped. For me to suddenly put the key in the ignition and turn the engine off, it's kind of a frightening thought. I put the key in and left it there, God willing, for another year.

  Vin Scully

  Keys, Years, Lucky

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• There is more talent per square metre in Ireland than there is anywhere else. We just don't harness or help them ... the radio stations prefer to support the likes of Rihanna and Beyonce.

  Louis Walsh

  Squares, Support, Radio

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• I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.

  Brian May

  Thinking, Play, America

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• I'd never consciously left home to see a zombie movie. They were fine by me, but I had no intention of ever being in one. But I've been learning more about it as I've been doing interviews. I didn't even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!

  Billy Connolly

  Home, Numbers, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers.

  Dionne Warwick

  Play, Careers, Slumps

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• Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.

  Patricia Penton Leimbach

  Car, Age, Radio

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• The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Lakes, Swans, Tchaikovsky

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Absurdistan”, p.181, Granta Books

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• Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networks, programs. Also, alternative newspapers, which exist all over the country. Also, cable TV programs, which are not dependent on commercial advertising. Also, the internet, which can reach millions of people by-passing the conventional media.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Discovery, Media

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Freedom Of Speech, Culture

  Source: portside.org

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• Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio ­stations, U.S. artists aren't ­compensated when their records are played on U.K. stations based on the fact that there's no reciprocity. If that income came in, our ­artists would be paying income taxes on it. So if we can get a lot of policy on the radar, that may have some positive influence.

  Neil Portnow

  Artist, Would Be, Income

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.

  Winona LaDuke

  Mother, Hard Work, Feet

  "Honor the Earth: The Triple Crown of Pipeline Rides". Short documentary narrated by Winona LaDuke, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2013.

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• I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.

  Dennis Prager

  Smart, Air, Gentleman

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• Writing is not work. In fact, theres nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.

  Toby Keith

  Song, Writing, Radio

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• I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.

  Andrew W.K.

  College, Radio, Kind

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

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• Every time I meet people working in radio, I'm a little embarrassed. It's all pre-programmed, rigidly formatted stuff. Time and time again, when I talk to jocks, they say how jealous they are of the freedom we have on WKRP. I sometimes have to explain to them that it's not a real radio station.

  Howard Hesseman

  Real, Jealous, People

  "WKRP In Cincinnati, 'Mike Fright'" by Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2012.

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• If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.

  Brian Roberts

  Sports, Baseball, College

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• I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.

  Elvis Presley

  Radio, Nova Scotia, Novas

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