Radio Industry Quotes

The radio is not show fun, it's show business. It's money.

Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.

I've never, like some people are, been embarrassed to be in radio.

Radio has always been just disgusting.

I don't even want my music on mainstream radio. They don't deserve it. They destroy careers.

When I was young, I used to hear people say, 'He's a golden boy. Look at that guy. Can you imagine what he's going to be like when he grows up?' Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn't even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.

I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.

I started in radio.

Sirius and XM went on air in 2001. It's taken 14 years for that to be a real business. It took them combining to be a real business.

Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.

I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.

Radio stations play what they believe is in, and they all talk to each other.

I've always sort of been at odds with radio programmers.

It's in my blood to be on the radio every day. I've done it since I was 16 years old.

When I first started at Sirius, I was the only woman on the whole station.

Radio for years and years looked at the same pool of talent. I always believed there were other people in the world that could do radio shows.

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.

I went into radio in 1965 when I got a license for CJOR 600 AM. It was my second business.

When I was growing up, I could tell you everything about the three radio stations in Nashville. My 12- and 14-year-olds can't tell me one radio station here but can tell me three on Sirius.

RADIO IS DEAD. The once-bright star that was public broadcasting has been destroyed by greed and corproate muscle to the point that even the music that is completely repugnant is positioned to be popular.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

It's an incredibly supportive and friendly field. Older people want to foster and help younger people. Which is not true of all creative fields, but it is true of comics, and it is true of radio.

Radio is not a job; it's a way of life. You can't really ever leave it.

I basically got into the radio game 'cause I was looking to do something positive with my life.