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The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.
Taylor SwiftI don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.
David ByrneWhen I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.
Ray BradburyI booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.
Frank OceanI don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
Taylor SwiftA lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.
Nipsey HussleYou listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.
Bad BunnyThe radio makes hideous sounds.
Bob DylanWhen I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn’t even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.
Dave GrohlMy mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.
Bad BunnyI booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.
Frank OceanI spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.
Margaret AtwoodRadio in England is nonexistent. It’s very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.
David BowieI never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
David ByrneUntil it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.
BonoI’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you’re not going to get played on radio and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
David BowieThe only way I’d be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.
Dolly PartonOn TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.
Bob UeckerIn ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.
Clint EastwoodWhen I put out ‚Video Games‘ in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!
Lana Del Rey‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.
Bruno MarsIt’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
Marilyn MonroeIt’s so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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