Radio Quotes

{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to launch a propaganda campaign against us. In a country where more than half the people cannot read or write and very few have televisions, radio is the dominant media. The fact that some newspapers were still printing the truth didn't matter much to the part of the population that couldn't read.Most of the literate people were already politically aware. While an educated person might question what they read or hear from the media, the uneducated tend to accept it. The uneducated are more easily affected by threats and the emotional trauma that propaganda like this can create.

~ John Rucyahana

A bad media creates a bad world and a good media makes the world good. The day all forms of media will stop functioning, we shall get a good understanding of the real meaning, value and impact of the media.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

They looked so familiar that for a moment Claude feared he had doubled back to Mrs. Merritt's city, until a sudden wave of water blinded his wipers and drove him along with everyone else to the curb, where the crackling radio reported an old man had just now been swept from his backyard by a cloudburst, the latest in a series deluging Tulsa. Clinging there to the side of the hill, no hand brake, Claude rode out the storm, stuffing blankets into the cracks under the doors, watching overhead drips as best he could with the babyseat. When the car next in front crept away from the curb, Claude followed as far as a gas station. There he wondered aloud what lay ahead, but the attendant couldn't say, having swum to work just five minutes ago. Now as Claude pulled away the rain suddenly ceased, it seemed from exhaustion, and for the next hundred miles he spun his dial to catch the latest reports: that old man was still missing, he had last been seen floating downhill toward the river, he had been found, he was dead, he was dying, he was still missing... Claude turned off the radio, for he was beyond range of Tulsa, and Joplin had not heard the news yet. He raced in silence toward the night which he knew already had begun not far ahead.

~ Douglas Woolf

The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

~ David Byrne

Is the music broke, Mommy?

~ Edward M. Wolfe

Biological harm from electromagnetic interference (EMI) is the dirty secret of the electrical, electronics and wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation industries.

~ Steven Magee

A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windows the deep bass of the radio, and the nasty words of a hateful song.It seemed like so much of modern music, a din to drive human beings mad.

~ Anne Rice

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is a major problem from poorly tested products and it should be dealt with sooner rather than later by government regulators.

~ Steven Magee

Time is weird. That much is obvious. Sometimes I think everything happens at once, which is anything but obvious and even weirder. I feel sorry for people who brag about 'living in the moment'; they're like people who come into the cinema after the film has started or people who drink Diet Coke—they're missing out on the best part. I think time is like the dial on a radio. Most people like to settle on a station with a clear signal and no interference. But that doesn't mean you can't listen to two or even three stations at the same time; it doesn't mean synchrony is impossible. Until quite recently, people believed it was impossible for a universe to fit inside two atoms, but it fits. Why dismiss the idea that on time's radio you can listen to the entire history of humanity simultaneously?

~ Marcelo Figueras

Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We look so very different from the way we sound. It’s a shock, similar to hearing your own voice for the first time, when you’re forced to wonder how the rest of you comes across if you sound nothing like the way you think you sound. You feel dislodged from the old shoe of yourself.

~ Elizabeth Hay

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.

~ Frank Ocean

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

~ Phil Simms

I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.

~ Larry King

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

~ Gerald R. Ford

My younger brother will remember that he received a transistor radio for Christmas. I took it apart and it never worked again.

~ Stephen Elop

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

~ Kacey Musgraves

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

~ Tommy Chong

I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

~ R. L. Stine

We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

~ F. Sionil José

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

~ Lenny Kravitz

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

~ Steven Johnson

It's always a positive when radio is playing your music and fans are responding.

~ Darius Rucker

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

~ Joan Rivers

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

~ Johnny Carson

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

~ Terry Wogan

Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

~ Tamsin Greig

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.

~ Seth Shostak

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

~ David Byrne

I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.

~ David Byrne

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

~ Conor Oberst

I don't listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don't want to be influenced.

~ Tom Scholz

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

~ T-Pain