Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

I just wanted to be a guy on the radio and I wanted to succeed, and I wanted a situation where I could be honest.

I'm the weirdo that tells - asks - the Uber driver to please turn the radio down. I'm so polite about it, though.

Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

I'm like a hermit. Once I'm home, I'm home and when I ride in the car, I don't really listen to the radio as much.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

When I was 15 years old in 1955, I heard of Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on our radio.

Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

Growing up, I heard as much E-40 and Mac Dre on the radio as I did 50 Cent. It's in our culture to support our own.

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.

You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.

Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

I hate people eating on film. I hate it even worse on the radio, when people eat on the radio. I just can't stand it.

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.

I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.

The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.

Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.

Criticisms of mainstream media bias have been a staple of the conservative movement and talk radio from the beginning.

My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.

I believe in legacy. And I believe in making the radio sound better. If I gotta listen to it, I want it to sound good.

I was the kid jamming out to the songs on the radio, and now there's hopefully kids out there jamming out to my music.

For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.

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

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

Seriously, he is just a voice on the radio, unlike the ones in your head, you don't have to do what he tells you to do.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.

I'm not the kind of artist who can just gear myself to a particular radio format without looking like a fashion victim.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

Radio is very popular [in Britain], but it doesn't connect us in the same way. It seems to have this community function.

Everything on the radio is metaphorical in a bad way. But when I write a lyric, like "bang my box," that's pretty clear.

I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!

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

Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played.

Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.

I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.

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