Radio Quotes - Page 27

• I always thought I was commercial. I always thought I was writing hit singles. These days, whatever's on the radio is considered commercial. People like what's on the radio, whatever it is.

  Tom Verlaine

  Writing, People, Singles

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• I think Badfinger was the epitome of that type of music before the power pop term was coined. 'No Matter What" is always gonna be a great song on the radio. There?s probably two or three others off their records that are as cool like 'Day After Day'.

  Robin Zander

  Song, Thinking, Two

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• You can't just repurpose old material created for one platform, throw it up on another one, and then be surprised when everyone yawns in your face. No one would ever think it was a good idea to use a print ad for a television commercial, or confuse a banner ad for a radio spot. Like their traditional media platform cousins, every social media platform has its own language.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Cousin, Thinking, Media

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Morning, New York, Couple

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The funny thing is that the studio that we recorded in was the same studio that Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole used to warm up their voices in before they went across the street to CBS Radio. The owner has preserved it exactly the way it was in 1925. It was such a perfect coincidence that we were doing music inspired by that stuff in that room. It was incredible.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Kings, Funny Things, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm the Legendary Radio Head

  Thom Yorke

  Legendary

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• People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing.

  Brian Blessed

  Kings, Thinking, Differences

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• When I say, 'I can't stay long, I'm in-between meals,' that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not just because of the images.

  Louie Anderson

  Play, Long, Doe

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• I grew up on radio, not TV.

  David Lee Roth

  Tvs, Grew Up, Grew

  "'Diamond Dave' rehashes old tunes to new beats" by Chuck Darrow, Courier-Post (p. 22S), May 30, 2003.

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• It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to temptation. There are so many things today in modern music, on television, and in the movies that portray a life that is nowhere near the life the Lord would have us live. Consequently, we cannot afford to turn to the radio, television, or Hollywood to take our cues about what is right and what is wrong. It is scary to realize that the more we are exposed to Hollywood's version of life, the more we gradually begin to accept it.

  Robert L. Millet

  Strong, Giving, Scary

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• I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.

  Medea Benjamin

  Thinking, Print Media, Government

  "Tucker" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. May 29, 2007.

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• Republicans look to find the future and they find radio.

  Bill Maher

  Looks, Republican

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• In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Order, Singing, Progress

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been pummeled for decades. Now that Fox News and conservative talk radio give people alternatives, critics squeal as if being sodomized.

  Larry Elder

  Children, Lunch, People

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• When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Men, He Man, Prophet

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• I think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder.

  Emmylou Harris

  Unique, Thinking, Voice

  Interview with Stacey D'Erasmo, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2014.

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• I got into DJ'ing because I started to listen to New York radio a lot. Obviously, I knew the stuff everybody knew, like Beastie Boys and Public Enemy, but I heard "Who Got the Props" by Black Moon, and I went up to this kid in my school with the Walkman on and was like, "What is this? You must tell me how I can get this now." Because there was no Shazam or googling lyrics.

  Mark Ronson

  New York, School, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't really get that good at cutting because I didn't have those three years of gestating and nurturing my skills in the bedroom. I was kind of, like, out and playing in clubs after three of four months, because I was pushy with promoters. But I would just listen to the radio - Stretch Armstrong and Red Alert - and then I would go hang out with Mayhem, who did the WNYU hip-hop show.

  Mark Ronson

  Cutting, Years, Skills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There were radio shows where you actually got to hear people play off of each other and get that immediate magic that goes on. And rather than doing what a lot of shows do, where an individual comes in, reads their part, and you edit it together later on and try to build a performance, we're lucky because this is really very much a theatrical performance that is going on, every single week.

  Jeph Loeb

  Play, People, Magic

  Source: collider.com

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• When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."

  Lizzo

  Children, Destiny, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as this new thing. It reminds me of how people used to tell me about my great-grandmother and how they used to gather around a radio listening to soap operas.

  Kalup Linzy

  Grandmother, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every time I meet people working in radio, I'm a little embarrassed. It's all pre-programmed, rigidly formatted stuff. Time and time again, when I talk to jocks, they say how jealous they are of the freedom we have on WKRP. I sometimes have to explain to them that it's not a real radio station.

  Howard Hesseman

  Real, Jealous, People

  "WKRP In Cincinnati, 'Mike Fright'" by Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2012.

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• Kurt (Cobain) was a fan of my standup, which was pretty weird. I know when people hear that, it's kind of like finding out that Jimi Hendrix really liked Buddy Hackett, but he interviewed me at a college radio station before they broke and did Bleach. And then, like, about two years later, I was opening for Nirvana at these huge sports arenas.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Sports, College, Years

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. August 19, 2009.

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• You know that scene at the beginning (of 'Pirate Radio') where I take The Count a cup of tea in the studio, and he shakes my hand, gives me a hug, and slaps me on the arse? That's genuinely the first time Tom Sturridge met Philip Seymour Hoffman. Literally, I'd hadn't seen him or exchanged words with him before. Richard just called me on set and said, 'Take him a cup of tea.' So that's what I did. And the smile of delight as he slaps me on the arse is purely mine.

  Tom Sturridge

  Hands, Giving, Pirate

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• The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing...There is no propaganda as long as one makes use, in a sporadic fashion and at random, of a newspaper article here, a poster or radio program there.

  Jacques Ellul

  Fashion, Mean, Doors

  "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes" by Jacques Ellul, translated by Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner, Vintage Books, New York, (p. 9), 1973.

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