Radio Quotes - Page 7

• The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

  Michael Rapaport

  New York, Father, Play

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• American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

  Shane Smith

  Media, Names, Calling

  "Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

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• There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.

  Boz Scaggs

  Used, Used To Be

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• Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

  Boz Scaggs

  Black, Sides, Grew Up

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• I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Years, New Work, Kind

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• If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed around by a yokel like me? I don't think Romney is realizing the doubts that this begins to raise about his leadership.

  Bryan Fischer

  Thinking, Korea, America

  "Radio's Bryan Fischer Tries Pushing Romney Right". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 14, 2012.

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• Each of is endlessly generating waves with our actions. If you could see the earth from a vibratory point of view, you would see something like radio waves billions of them, cascading constantly into very complex patterns all over the earth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Views

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• I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.

  Hailey Abbott

  Girl, Song, Giving

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• In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

  Huey Lewis

  Records, Able, Way

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• Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.

  K. D. Lang

  Television, Tvs, Vehicle

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• I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

  Hannah Simone

  Two, Political, Degrees

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hannah Simone". www.esquire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.

  Aaron Tveit

  Car, Fans, Kind

  "Aaron Tveit Will Be Received". Interview with Dawn Kay, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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• But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

  Mel Tillis

  Country, Radio Stations, Stations

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• My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

  Robin Thicke

  Song, Play, Black

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• So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

  Rod Taylor

  Actors, Auditions, Sydney

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• Gone are the days when you'd have to tune in to a mad illegal radio station late at night to be able to hear the rapper of your choice. That's all changed now. That's all gone out of the window. And I feel like I represent that change. I represent the era of iPods and Shuffle and things like that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Night, Rapper, Ipods

  "British Rapper Tinie Tempah Gets Up Close & Personal With Serial Optimist". Interview with Rawiya Kameir, www.serialoptimist.com. December 16, 2010.

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• I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.

  Bobby Vinton

  Rocks, Jail, Records

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• The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.

  Galina Vishnevskaya

  Writing, Voice, Television

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• It's a great feeling to be recognized by your peers. It's an even better feeling to be welcomed and accepted by country radio and its listeners. If desire is any part of this equation, then I'm a contender!

  Chely Wright

  Country, Feelings, Desire

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

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• I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Country, Osmosis, Buttons

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• I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

  Aimee Mann

  Fall, Years, Car

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• I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

  Catherine McCormack

  Ipods, Bob, Stones

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

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• On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Golf, Average, Car

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• Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.

  Jeff Zucker

  Thinking, Pressure, Different

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• I don't really like listening to the radio so much.

  Tom Waits

  Listening

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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