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Radio Quotes

On the sound that filled the room before screens did.

These lines lean nostalgic, from someone recalling the first radio they ever saw, bulky enough to take up an entire wall, to a preference for old radio shows over scrolling a phone. Related: Music.

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.

Quotes by Tommy Chong

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

Quotes by Tom Scholz

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and...

Quotes by Tom Riley

I wanted to see if you could put a prototype radio station on the Internet so you wouldn't have to invest $50 million or $100 million or $150 million to buy a transmitter and a frequency.

Quotes by Tom Leykis

I love ghost stories but kind of left them alone after my teens and came back to it after playing Heathcliff in 'Wuthering Heights' on the radio.

Quotes by Tom Goodman-Hill

The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

Quotes by Tom C. Clark

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

Quotes by Tom Araya

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

Quotes by Tom Araya

I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.

Quotes by Tiny Tim

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Quotes by Timothy Noah

You don't try to get influenced by everything that's going on with all the other music around you. You don't listen to the radio - I mean, I don't. When I get ready to do an album, I don't listen...

Quotes by Tim McGraw

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.

Quotes by Thurston Moore

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Quotes by Terry Wogan

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

Quotes by Tamsin Greig

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

Quotes by T-Pain

What, exactly, did Sjahrir do for the Republic? ... His entire underground effort can be summed up by saying that he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio.

Quotes by Sukarno

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.

Quotes by Stuart Symington

Every single thing that I was told that I couldn't do without a label - get in the charts, get on to the Radio 1 playlist - I've done.

Quotes by Stormzy

I know a lot of grime artists started off on pirate radio, but I missed that era; I was way too young.

Quotes by Stormzy

Grime is still quite new. You can't expect national radio and national media to get it straight away.

Quotes by Stormzy

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about wanting more radio support?
Yes: "It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it."
Is there a quote describing seeing a radio for the first time?
Yes, a vivid memory: "I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment was so bulky that it took up one entire wall of the bedroom." Nostalgia quotes pairs well with this kind of early-memory reflection.
Is there a quote about preferring old radio shows to social media?
Yes: "For me, personally, I'm usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting."
Is there a quote about a childhood memory involving a big radio?
Yes: "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." Connection quotes covers other quotes about meaningful personal memories.
Where can I find more quotes about music and broadcasting?
Try Music quotes or Broadcast quotes for related themes.

One childhood memory even involves crawling under a four-legged radio set with a pillow just to listen closer. See also Broadcast and Connection.