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" Quotes and Sayings About radio

Every mallam with im own kettle, every aboki with im own radio.

Aboki Kettle Radio Mallam
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I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Always Being Communication Could
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Acceptable Access Age Certain
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

I Peak Radio Untruths
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George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.

Announcer Bridge George Hear
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

Attention Difficult Down Net
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Pirate radio is like street art.

Art Like Pirate Radio
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Radio 1 doesn't exist to me. I don't judge my success by anything they say.

Anything Exist Judge Me
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Gossip is the Devil's radio.

Devil Gossip Radio
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As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I'm not unhappy about it.

About Accept Days Elton
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I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Bath Could Hated Me
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My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

Accent Along American American Accent
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I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

Before Doing Got Play
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It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

Had Nothing Radio True
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My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.

Become Decided First Freestyle
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Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.

Bad Close Down Interviews
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Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.
Go Internet Radio Television
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.

Nas
Anything Biggest Could Promised
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Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

Able Always Am Believed
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Different Driving Even Fiction
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

Around Enough Long Radio
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

Burning Even Good Great
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

Being One Of The Problems People Problems
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Best Big Characters Counts
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

Audience Easy Exists Forget
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

Air Apps Download Everything
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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

Actually Connection Good Got
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When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.

Big Crawl Cross Four
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

Actually Behalf Done Events
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Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

American Anymore Barely Best
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The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

About Because Conspires Else
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.

Actually Closer Conversations Each
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.

Based Best Big Character
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My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.

Baltimore Boy DJ Era
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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

City First Gig Hall
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My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

Always Been Chick Control
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

Apprentice Became Decent Electric
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Common Denominator Football Lowest
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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Could Father Hate Hated
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Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.

Actually America Came Early
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I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

Actually Amazed Anything Because
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We're not one of those groups who have one song on the radio and, boom, they're an instant success. We worked hard from day one and didn't get a lot of respect, possibly because of the way we were marketed.

Because Boom Day Day One
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

Good Morning Obsessed Radio
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In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.

Awarded Degree Discovery Doctor
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I promise to support the advocacy by setting up a women-focused radio station in Abuja soon.
Promise Advocacy Setting up Women focused
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

After Could Couple Folk
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Age Airplane Any Artists
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When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.

Bedroom Big Bought Broadcast
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I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.

Break Every EveryOpportunity Opportunity
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What I've figured out how to do is make people feel comfortable on television and on the radio, which enables me to have access to them, which is key for what I do.

Access Comfortable Enables Feel
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