Top Radio Quotes
When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it.
Missy Elliot
Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
Jimmy Durante
It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
Kate Adie
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
Fran Lebowitz
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe
Bob Edwards 
Mike Gordon 
Otis Rush 
Tim McGraw 
Dan Castellaneta 
Talib Kweli 
Sarah Vowell 
Phil Rizzuto 
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David Byrne 
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It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe 
62% of people like this quote
I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.
John Hurt
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There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'
Chuck D.
62% of people like this quote
TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.
Peggy Noonan
61% of people like this quote
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
Ernst Fischer
60% of people like this quote
The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week.
John Hall
59% of people like this quote
They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.
Jermaine Dupri
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There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.
Ruben Blades
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I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.
Cliff Martinez
59% of people like this quote
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