Ryan Seacrest Quotes

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.

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

I started radio, actually, when I was 13. I started DJing when I was 13, but later in that year, I started a high school station at Phillips Academy. I didn't actually go there, but it was in the town I went to high school in. So literally, within six months of DJing, they started mailing me records; it was crazy.

I grew up in the age of radio where we just went wherever the jobs were available. The job doing afternoons at Z100 was, funny enough, the only job I could find.

When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

We can get airplay all across the board, from CHR to Active rock.

Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care.

I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.

There's one place that I've always known I wanted to be, and that is on country radio.

I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.

I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was leaving. I marched straight to the radio station and told them I could do better. For some reason, they gave me a go.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at it under a microscope and know that each station is just trying to do what's right for their market, and it's scary for a radio station to add a song that they don't know how well it's gonna do for them.

I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.

I'm so excited. I love radio and being on the new Mix 102.9.

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

I got lucky when I was a teenager when we were booking bands at university. Those gigs were the greatest two hours in my life and there was nothing else I wanted to do. I knew my passion early, which is always the tough part of life, figuring out what makes you tick.

I was a radio presenter in Dubai for five years.

I started in radio.

Ray and I both grew up with radio. Our whole hopes for the future were that we'd get into radio.

The good thing about radio is that it's the kind of career that really is a career with longevity. It's something you can do as long as you want to do.

Country radio has been so supportive.