Radio Quotes

• the power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.

  Hallie Flanagan

  Media, Speak, Millions

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• On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.

  Red Barber

  Artist, Tvs, Servant

  Red Barber (1968). “Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat”, p.304, U of Nebraska Press

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• The dimensions of the radio are truly to be treasured.

  Charles Osgood

  Dimensions, Treasured

  Charles Osgood (2000). “See You on the Radio”

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• The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.

  Bob Edwards

  Crazy, Pals

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• There's always a nice tune [on radio] - helps you get the dishes done . I like to get the news from time to time - not too often. I don't feel deprived.

  Leonard Cohen

  Nice, Tunes, News

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

  Peggy Noonan

  Giving, Brain, Tvs

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• [In] radio, every segment of every hour is a challenge to fill in an interesting way. What I like the most about it is how challenging it is to do it well.

  Scott Van Pelt

  Interesting, Challenges, Way

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• Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.

  Lisa M

  Surround Yourself, Turns, Surround

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• Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.

  Harry von Zell

  World, Transformation, Intimate

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• Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Communication, Offering, World

  "Understanding Media : The Extensions of Man" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 261), 1964.

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• It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Funny, Actresses

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• Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

  Alex Blumberg

  Today, Tvs, Bigger

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

  Terry Wogan

  Imagination, Television, Contracts

  "Terry Wogan turned down for BBC2 job in 1965 by David Attenborough" by Jasper Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2016.

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• I have the perfect face for radio.

  Virginia Graham

  Perfect, Faces, Perfect Face

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• With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

  Bob Edwards

  Listeners

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• Radio... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people... who fortunately can't reach me.

  Milton Berle

  People, Wonderful, Invention

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• I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.

  Courtney Love

  Inspired, Turns, Right Now

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• Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

  Casey Kasem

  Emotional, Levels, Connecting

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• In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

  Ernie Harwell

  Announcers, Happens, Things Happen

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• I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better.

  Alistair Cooke

  Tvs

  "Why listening to football on the radio beats watching it on TV" by Tony Cowards, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2016.

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• A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, Years, Poetry

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• Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

  Paul Fleischman

  Invisible, Listeners, Lurking

  Paul Fleischman (2003). “Seek”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Benefits, Surprise, Realms

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• In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Science, Eras, New Era

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• A good radio show will captivate you, and it's active listening. It's not in the background.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Listening, Backgrounds, Shows

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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