"Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done."
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"People ask me what's like to hear our song on the radio. I don't know, I don't listen to the radio"
"You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations."
"When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person."
"Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio."
"Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying."
"I grew up on radio, not TV."
"Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you."
"I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV."
"I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there."
"I don't like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that's most inspiring, because it's at that second that you're aware of "the infinite everything.""
"I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music."
"All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind."
"I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio."
"If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important."
"It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net."
"I wasn't wattching television when I was a youngster; there was the radio."
"A lot of stuff you hear on the radio is like instant hooky pop, but I can't imagine it being covered in the future by other artists. It's really for themselves."
"I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school."
"I have the perfect face for radio."