Quotes of Radio - somelinesforyou

“ I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio. ”

- Phil Rizzuto

“ There was a radio station in Chicago, there was a guy named Al Benson, and he pretty much dominated black radio in the '50s. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care. ”

- Don Rose

“ I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me. ”

- Allen Funt

“ The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ through radio I look forward to a united states of the world. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the earth, English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its sociological influence. ”

- Arthur Edwin Kennelly

“ When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when I turn on my radio, when I hear that Jews have been insulted, mistreated, persecuted, I say that we have been lied to: Hitler is not dead; when, finally, I turn on my radio and hear that in Africa forced labor has been inaugurated and legalized, I say that we have certainly been lied to: Hitler is not dead. ”

- Aime Cesaire

“ I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands. ”

- Jason Newsted

“ I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person. ”

- Angie Martinez

“ People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine. ”

- David Letterman

“ On CBS Radio the news of Ed Murrow's death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial. ”

- Alexander Kendrick

“ Going on the radio is like talking to a nice girl you know; you think of perfect things to say and things to talk about but you can't premeditate love or the media. ”

- Alex James

“ With radio limitations as far as length of songs and content, sometimes if you are being conscious of that then that effects the outcome of a song. ”

- Vanilla Ice

“ George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge… you can't hear him talk. ”

- Steven Wright

“ Television is democracy at its ugliest. ”

- Paddy Chayefsky

“ Nothing is really real unless it happens on television. ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life. ”

- Bryant Gumbel

“ Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime. ”

- Alfred Hitchcock

“ I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it. ”

- Lee Ann Womack

“ The ideal voice for radio may be defined as showing no substance, no sex, no owner, and a message of importance for every housewife. ”

- Harry V. Wade

“ I wrote a song, but I can't read music. Every time I hear a new song on the radio I think, Hey, maybe I wrote that. ”

- Steven Wright

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

- Joan Rivers

“ I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up. ”

- Dennis Wilson

“ With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax. ”

- William Thomson

“ I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers. ”

- Uri Geller

“ Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. ”

- Robert Bresson

“ The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church…is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her. ”

- Dwight L. Moody

“ The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. ”

- Libby Houston

“ Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country: President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs. ”

- George F. Will
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