Radio Quotes - Page 2

• On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Believe, Night

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle.

  Carrie Underwood

  Book, Yummy, Bed

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• 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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• I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Ears, Whispering, Intimacy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the
  psyche and society into a single echo chamber.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Echoes, Depth, Antiques

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• I fell in love with radio once I started working there, and I never stopped.

  Terrence J

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Generations, Singers

  "Taylor Swift: A young singer's meteoric rise". "60 minutes" with Lesley Stahl, cbshw.net. November 21, 2011.

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• Radio was, in a way, a very philosophical medium. You could make an argument on the radio, and people listened to it. Television is already harder because people's attention span becomes shorter with television. Cut to a commercial and all that.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Philosophical, Cutting, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Every day FM radio ran out of hours, not music.

  Bob Guccione, Jr.

  Hours, Ran

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• I got my start in silent radio.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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• If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Witty, Baby

  "The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"by R. Byrne, (p. 94), 2003.

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• The radio craze will die out in time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Craze, Dies

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• I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.

  Joe Buck

  Thinking, Down And, Mics

  Source: www.npr.org

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• For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

  Casey Kasem

  Talking, Years, Stronger

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• I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

  R. L. Stine

  Morning, Sunday, Obsessed

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

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• There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

  Geoff Rickly

  Class, Privilege, Whole

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio.

  Ed Bradley

  Earth

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• Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Running, Country, People

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• I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.

  Sarah Vowell

  Believe, Mass, Mediums

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• Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.

  Gordon Smith

  Advertising, Grammy, Performers

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• I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Eight, People

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• The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Book

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 09, 2016

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• It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

  Bono

  Sweet, Cynical, Teeth

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