Radio Quotes - Page 24

• I don't get particularly precious about things like this, though. Like the record company said, "We need a radio edit that delivers the hook" - I don't even know what they consider the hook in that song ["Oh No"] - "that delivers the hook sooner." So I'm like, "Okay. I see that." And they were all walking on eggshells, like is this going to be sacrilegious to me or something, to mess with this art I've created? And I'm like, "Great. I get to tinker with it, I get to mess with my song some more."

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Art, Needs

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial radio broadcaster] Father Coughlin and [racist and anti-Semitic agitator and founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade] Gerald L.K. Smith started out as share-the-wealth socialists.

  James Ellroy

  Christian, Father, Guy

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I don't really listen to my old stuff, but on occasion, I would either hear a track on the radio or a friend might play me one, and there was generally a bit of an edgy sound to it, which was mainly due to the digital equipment that we were using, which was state of the art at the time - and I think everyone felt pressured to be working that way.

  Kate Bush

  Art, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I would want to make Radio Haiti as independent as possible, which means it can't be strictly commercial.

  Michele Montas

  Independent, Mean, Haiti

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that may take years off a person's life. We all, whether we like it or not and whether we acknowledge it or not, are impacted by the racial attitudes we carry within us, and experience in some form every time we turn on the television, the radio, go to a movie, read a magazine or a newspaper, or walk down the street.

  Marge Piercy

  Attitude, War, Epidemics

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it.

  Helen Mirren

  Hate, People, Film

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

  Chamillionaire

  Thinking, Car, People

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.

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• Every now and then, I might listen to music, but I try not to listen to it too much because when you turn on the radio and hear the same song over and over again. You won't appreciate it as much; it won't be as fresh.

  Chamillionaire

  Song, Appreciate, Trying

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.

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• When I get home and turn on the radio, I hear songs that are new to me, but to everybody else they're old. I try to keep the music fresh in my head.

  Chamillionaire

  Song, Home, Trying

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.

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• I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one we have in the United Nations whereby, where there's a problem in our society which demands a compassionate response, an educated, informed, not just a splurgy emotional thing, but an informed compassionate response that puts yourself in the position of the other and sees all sides of the problem, not just your own, there'll be somebody poised in each society who can write to the media, write an op-ed piece, to go on TV or radio.

  Karen Armstrong

  Team, Writing, Emotional

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.

  Stephen Fry

  Spiritual, Wall, Children

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• I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state... a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it.

  William L. Shirer

  Lying, Taken, Years

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.423, RosettaBooks

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• Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Gossip, People, Giving

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.60, Basic Books

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• The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.

  Michael Parenti

  Agency, Publishing House, Media

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• This...Godless society operates in an extremely efficient manner at least in its higher levels of leadership...It follows a perfectly mapped out strategy. It holds almost complete sway in international organizations, in financial circles, in the field of mass communications; press, cinema, radio and television.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Communication, Circles, Organization

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• People are not even going to have time to listen to radio in their cars because they are going to be talking on their phones or twittering, or BBM'ing. So I feel like the only time people are going to hear music is when your phone rings, so that's the whole market I'm going after.

  Spencer Pratt

  Phones, Talking, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I don't care about the clubs, I don't care about the radio, all I care about is getting my digital downloads.

  Spencer Pratt

  Care, Clubs, Digital

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The important thing was that I was still on the radio.

  Dick Biondi

  Important, Stills, Important Things

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• Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Rocks, Church, Rock Music

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• I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it.

  Laura Davies

  Party, Thinking, Concerts

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• 'Boneless,' even though we were thinking about servicing it to radio, it made more sense putting a vocal on there. This was actually the first time that I really looked at doing a song for radio and kind of let go of some control and listened to a lot of different radio pluggers and had Ultra come in and help out with ideas.

  Steve Aoki

  Letting Go, Song, Thinking

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• If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the Old Order and defend the status quo, if necessary, by force. In the words of the standard police bulletin known to all radio listeners, These men are armed -and they may be dangerous.

  Ferdinand Lundberg

  Military, Men, Order

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• Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Mind, Littles

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• I'm a believer that satellite radio, whether I'm on it or not, will take off.

  Howard Stern

  Satellites, Believer

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.

  Karen Walton

  Drama, Writing, Doors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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