Radio Quotes - Page 20

• Once I learned how to talk, personally, by myself to any number of people, which means do radio without talking to anyone in particular on the air - I just found that my brain became very free to engage in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style of doing what I do.

  Marc Maron

  Mean, Numbers, Air

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.

  Marc Maron

  Television, Stuff, Primitive

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My heart goes out to DJs who are governed entirely by playlists. Being allowed the freedom of choice, that - for me - is what makes radio special.

  David Rodigan

  Heart, Choices, Special

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• I'll always be fascinated with radio. Radio allows you to have a one-to-one relationship with the person sharing the music with you. You can also do very many things if you're listening to the radio, things you can't so if you're watching TV or watching a phone.

  David Rodigan

  Phones, Listening, Watching Tv

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• Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.

  David Rodigan

  Essence, Voice, Mind

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• I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain.

  Peter Stormare

  Dream, Kids, Dark

  Source: collider.com

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• Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

  Shirley Manson

  Tragedy, Records, Care

  "Shirley Manson and Butch Vig Answer 20 Questions for the 20th Anniversary of ‘Garbage’". Interview with Rachel Brodsky, www.spin.com. August 13, 2015.

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• The thing with animation is that you record the actors like a radio show and then the animators become actors in their own way because it's their job to take this puppets and make them seem alive. They bring their own personalities to the way they move these puppets.

  Wes Anderson

  Jobs, Moving, Personality

  "Wes Anderson on Darjeeling Limited: The RT Interview". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 22, 2007.

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• My father was a local radio celebrity in the Albany area while I was growing up. That was his dream when he was a boy. I learned from him that some dreams are attainable and the penalty for inaction is regret.

  Jonathan Weeks

  Dream, Regret, Growing Up

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• I've turned down songs that would be much easier to play on the radio that I don't think should be on the album. Maybe I've shot myself in the foot.

  Jessie Ware

  Song, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.

  Neil Young

  Government, Gone, Records

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I wanted to be a broadcaster, sportscaster, or gameshow host from a very early age. I did my first broadcasting when I was 10 or 11 - into a tape recorder for my brother's football game, and for local events. A local radio station was experimenting with high school disc jockeys for rock and roll shifts - I applied - and got the job.

  Ralph Strangis

  Football, Brother, Jobs

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• I've done a lot of radio in my life. I've done radio plays for the BBC when I was young so I was absolutely used to that style of work, of working with the voice. I have a very distinctive voice so it's always great for me because I open my mouth and everybody knows who it is.

  Michael Caine

  Voice, Done, Mouths

  "Michael Caine Interview CARS 2". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.

  George Thorogood

  Song, Rocks, Play

  "George Thorogood and The Destroyers hit Hard Rock at Northfield Park July 1". Cleveland Music Examiner Interview, www.georgethorogood.com.

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• I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Writing, Wine

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• I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn't have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked 'til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on - it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am.

  Jack Kirby

  Morning, Home, Night

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music played by bands in hotels that our parents could dance to. We had a big radio that looked like a jukebox, with a record player on the top. The radio/record player played 78rpm records. When we moved to that house, there was a record on there, with a red label. It was Bill Monroe, or maybe it was the Stanley Brothers. I'd never heard anything like that before. Ever. And it moved me away from all the conventional music that I was hearing.

  Bob Dylan

  Brother, Player, Rocks

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise' UK exclusive: Folk legend on why he's taking a turn as a crooner for his latest album". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Generations, Way

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio, I couldn't see what they looked like, so I imagined what they looked like. What they were wearing. What their movements were. Gene Vincent? When I first pictured him, he was a tall, lanky blond-haired guy.

  Bob Dylan

  Childhood, Guy, Movement

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• Up north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock 'n' roll things - country blues. We would hear Slim Harpo or Lightnin' Slim and gospel groups, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. I was so far north, I didn't even know where Alabama was.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Boys, Rocks

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well spans my life as an appreciator - as somebody who's been involved with this mass cult of horror, from radio and movies and Saturday matinees and books. In the '40s there really wasn't that much. People don't want to read about horrible things in horrible times. So, in the '40s, there was Val Lutin with The Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People and there wasn't much else.

  Stephen King

  Book, Cat, People

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• There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Interview with Ricky Young, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

  Marc Maron

  People, Guy, Political

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• Any comic can get on the radio show and be funny. You can get that on any morning radio show or afternoon radio show. There are plenty of people who do that. It's not a difficult format, to sit around with two or three comics and be funny.

  Marc Maron

  Morning, Two, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Television, Youngsters

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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