Radio Stations Quotes - Page 3

• Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put it on the radio, then you've heard it a million times when you're driving from your shitty job to your shitty house. It's indoctrination, it's sad.

  Sia Furler

  Jobs, House, Radio

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• When I was living in Boston I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.

  Win Butler

  College, Boston, Care

  "Arcade Fire". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 4, 2010.

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• When I first started, it was the real basic stuff that was being played on the radio, so I was into Zeppelin, and Sabbath, and AC/DC, and all stuff like that. I grew up in New York, on Long Island, so the local radio stations played all that kind of thing.

  John Petrucci

  New York, Real, Islands

  Source: www.wikimetal.com.br

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• You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.

  Brian McKnight

  Fire, Wind, Chicago

  "5 questions for Brian McKnight". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.houstonchronicle.com. August 16, 2016.

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• For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up.

  Ira Glass

  People, Radio, Starting

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.

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• The New York Times does an unbelievable amount of damage because every day television and radio stations along with the rest of media take their lead on the way the news should be presented along with what actually is the news.

  Jackie Mason

  New York, Media, News

  Source: spectator.org

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• We don't have a studio, we don't have a radio station, we don't have anybody breathing down our necks to make a budget. We don't have any benchmarks that we have to hit. Our benchmarks are ones that we have set.

  Nikka Graff Lanzarone

  Breathing, Radio, Necks

  "BWW Interview: The Ensemblist Podcast Returns for a Second Season". Interview with Ashlee Latimer, www.broadwayworld.com. September 4, 2016.

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• Every place has its own challenges. In Canada, we have blessings like grants, but we also have curses in the sense that when you start to do more urban classified music, we no longer have a single urban radio station left.

  Kreesha Turner

  Blessing, Challenges, Radio

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• It's often considered elitist to say that well maybe voters are uninformed and that they should know more before they cast their votes. It's strange to say that because it's also elitist to say that to run a radio station requires skill or to be a plumber requires skill and background knowledge.

  Jason Brennan

  Running, Skills, Radio

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• My latest theory is that it's - well, I describe it as, like, being in an apartment with kind of thin walls. And in the apartment next door, they've got a radio tuned constantly on - tuned to a really cool radio station. It's on all the time. And you can just hear it coming through the wall all the time.

  Nick Lowe

  Wall, Doors, Radio

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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• And then, one day, they program a new tune, and it really catches your ear, you know, because you can be doing the washing up or something, you know, in your apartment and suddenly you go, whoa, what are they playing in there? And you run to the wall, but it's finished - but the song's finished. You only heard enough of it just the pique your interest. And you never know when they're going to play it again, of course, like a normal radio station.

  Nick Lowe

  Running, Song, Wall

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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• The music I was always attracted to and the shows I was really into like, you know, those weekend Don Kirshner shows, "Midnight Special," those shows, I remember watching those and the music was just on; it was the greatest radio stations.

  Bobby Cannavale

  Weekend, Special, Midnight

  "What happens when Mick Jagger visits a TV show writers room?". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 2, 2016.

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• Usually it's lyric first, but sometimes it's melody. And I carry a hand-held recorder everywhere I go so I can just hum or whistle a melody if one hits me. Sometimes it's both simultaneously - lyric and melody at the same time - those are a little confusing to me, but sometimes it comes in that form. I just feel like I have my own little radio station and sometimes the static clears and something beams in from out there.

  Hal Ketchum

  Hands, Confusing, Radio

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• I have been singing since I was two years old, my parents tell me, and started to write songs when I was fifteen. Eventually, my friends and my parents knew that this was something I liked to do. They also knew I had a dream of making my own album. They have always been encouraging me to do something about it, and so I did. So I went to a local radio station in Tromsø, and there I got to record a couple of songs.

  Lene Marlin

  Dream, Song, Couple

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• Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Believe, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Why is it when you turn on the TV you see ads for telephone companies, and when you turn on the radio you hear ads for TV shows, and when you get put on hold on the phone you hear a radio station?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Phones, Tv Shows, Radio

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• People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're just the audience. You know, people will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. [But] they are really looking for something that's gonna speak to the world that they're living in. That's what people are looking for, but they're not finding it.

  Mos Def

  Hate, People, Different

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I first got interested in music as a toddler by my childhood babysitter, Rosetta Atkins. She taught me how to sing by imitating the voices on the gospel radio station she listened to - both men and women's voices.

  Wendy Starland

  Men, Voice, Childhood

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• There is no question that the US market is the hardest to break into. I believe that the reason for this primarily has to do with the fact that the majority of the most powerful radio stations in the US are owned by Clear Channel. They are massive and have the ability to break artists worldwide. For the most part, they are dealing directly with the major labels in the US, with whom they have had long relationships. If you are an artist that is not being pushed by Clear Channel radio in the US, your chances of becoming a household name are slim.

  Wendy Starland

  Powerful, Believe, Artist

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• In Europe, radio stations are owned by a variety of different entities, so there is less uniformity on radio programming and more opportunity for artists to get radio play and break overseas.

  Wendy Starland

  Opportunity, Artist, Play

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• I sent a lot of the e-mails out to venues and tried to get shows and tried to get people interested in it. It can be a tough thing, because you know these people at venues are getting e-mails like that every day, but I think just my experience in working in running a radio station.

  Chris Baio

  Running, Thinking, People

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• The only thing contrived is the production - you can over-produce to the point you kill a good idea, you can under-produce so that the song's amazing but you'll have folks at a radio station saying they won't play it, so there's this balance, and it has to be true.

  Ryan Tedder

  Song, Play, Ideas

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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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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• I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If he stole some book he didn't like from the library, or made the radio station play only part of the day on Sunday, or took somebody off to the state poor home, he called it Christian. I never had much religious training, and I never went to Sunday school because we didn't belong to the church when I was old enough to go, but I thought I knew what believing in Christ meant, and it wasn't half the things the preacher did.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Christian, Religious, Book

  John Kennedy Toole (2007). “The Neon Bible”, p.140, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Idols, Play

  "Dave Grohl Just Continues To Dominate" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. January 11, 2012.

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