Top 100 Love Radio Quotes
#1. In some circles, admitting you love Top 40 radio is tantamount to bragging you gave your grandmother the clap, in church, in the front row at your aunt's funeral, but those are the circles I avoid like the plague or, for that matter, the clap.
Rob Sheffield
#3. Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
Helen Gurley Brown
#4. Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.
Dean Acheson
#5. I love dancing to the radio every morning, to start the day with such passion. Otherwise, life is too sad. My little daughter and I like dancing to classical music: Bach and Schubert.
Anna Mouglalis
#6. One of my favorite occupations is making radio/video edits. I love singles.
Justus Kohncke
#7. I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but Eighties music. That had a real profound impact on me.
Dave Keuning
#8. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
Malcolm McDowell
#9. People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals ... We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.
Miriam Makeba
#10. My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.
Francis Ford Coppola
#11. I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.
Ronnie Spector
#12. I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy ... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
Malcolm Turnbull
#13. I love doing the radio plays, creating a whole world with just the voice, and I'd love to be back on stage, too, at some point.
Sophie Winkleman
#14. In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone's life?
Billy Bush
#15. I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the paparazzi, I genuinely prefer my neighbours. Spending time with my family and watching Coronation Street are what I love best. People are just people, aren't they?
Tony Blackburn
#16. I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.
Hailey Abbott
#17. I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
Gerald R. Ford
#18. Young love don't know nothin' when the radio plays you sing along. When she's holding on you just can't get close enough, you swear it's sent from above. It's real,it's good, and it's young love
Kip Moore
#19. Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
Edgar Bergen
#20. But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.
Yiyun Li
#21. I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.
Eddie Trunk
#22. There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.
Stefan Molyneux
#23. I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.
Conor McPherson
#24. In general when you fall in love with an artist and their music, the plan is a fairly simple one.. get people to go and see them, and make a record that you think properly presents their music to the public and some of which you can get on the radio.
Peter Asher
#25. I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.
Jessica Sanchez
#26. When 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
#27. It's so rewarding being on radio, especially because it's not about what you look like at all. And I love comedy, so it's very exciting.
Sophie Monk
#28. The Beatles were in a different stratosphere, a different planet to the rest of us. All I know is when I heard 'Love Me Do' on the radio, I remember walking down the street and knowing my life was going to be completely different now the Beatles were in it.
Justin Hayward
#29. I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.
Courtney Love
#30. Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
Eminem
#31. I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.
Dick York
#32. I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.
Louise Jameson
#33. I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.
Enrique Iglesias
#34. I love Nashville. It's such a great town, and I'm a huge country music fan. That's what I listen to on the radio in the car.
Joanna Garcia
#35. Maybe I should stop while I'm ahead
Nay, I swim with sea-demons
no sweet summer tuned radio
over my sunless desertscape
how does it burn without the sun?
Moonshine Noire
#36. People tend to personalize technology so they can't get to the systemic analysis. They say, "Oh, I can't give up my personal computer." Or, "I just love radio too much."
Chellis Glendinning
#37. My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
Ed Sheeran
#38. I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.
Bill Burr
#39. Don't break your promise. Sweat the small stuff. Love your brand. Love your customers.
Ken Goldstein
#41. I feel like if you turn on country radio, you will find something you'll love because it's so diverse.And that's a great thing.
Miranda Lambert
#42. I'm not anti single. I'm not one of them niggas that say "Aww record sales ain't everything." No. I wanna sell good. I would love a platinum record on radio and charts.
Schoolboy Q
#43. I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4.
John Niven
#44. When I think about dropping team sports and picking up surfing and also then geeking out radio control planes and gadgetry and all that stuff I love, that's what really now has led me in big part to GoPro.
Nick Woodman
#45. You know, radio DJ's must really love to talk to theirselves. Especially when they have the graveyard shift. 'Hey this is Ellen with 89.1. It is currently three in the morning. There are few cars on the road. And it your still listening heres a little music to get you to dance..
Ellen DeGeneres
#46. I love listening to games on the radio ... you can't see what's going on
Andy Townsend
#47. Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.
Michael Stipe
#48. Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look at all this great music around. You never hear it on the radio, but it's right there, great music.
Pete Seeger
#49. I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.
Casey Abrams
#50. I grew up on country radio. You know I'm a sucker for that 'we got no money but we got love' crap.
Rob Sheffield
#51. I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.
Joan Collins
#52. My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.
Steve Wozniak
#53. And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most.
Judi Dench
#54. The breeze carried snatches of music from a large portable radio on the grass: a sugary song of love either lost or about to be.
Haruki Murakami
#55. I just love doing radio. I've learned to be more vulnerable through radio than even I've been through books and writing lyrics. It's a different type of experience where, if I'm writing a lyric, I can sort of hide behind it a little bit.
Nikki Sixx
#56. I was bartending when I recorded 'Same Love,' and when it was on the radio, too. I remember overhearing people talking about the song while I was making them drinks.
Mary Lambert
#57. 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.
Tom Goodman-Hill
#58. And then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. "Love this song," Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio ...
Daniel Handler
#59. As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific - you're talking all the time.
Marv Albert
#60. I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person.
Angie Martinez
#61. Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.
Jack Kerouac
#62. On the very tip of his tongue is his Firerancher. Thin as tissue paper, it looks like the moon in the daytime sky. Suddenly love is looming over the car, as big and invisible as the ghost mountains of the Comobabi range. I smile at him and turn up the radio with my toes.
Jo Ann Beard
#63. I fell in love with radio once I started working there, and I never stopped.
Terrence J
#64. The radio aches a little tune that tells the story of what the night is thinking. it's thinking of love.
it's thinking of stabbing us to death and leaving our bodies in a dumpster.
that's a nice touch, stains in the night, whiskey and kisses for everyone.
Richard Siken
#65. You only love when you love in vain.
Try another radio probe
when ten have failed,
take two hundred rabbits
when a hundred have died:
only this is science.
You ask the secret.
It has just one name:
again.
Miroslav Holub
#66. I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.
Indira Varma
#67. Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it's just because they love doing it and they love each other and that's the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV.
Ben Gibbard
#68. Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to throw all your money at the radio while yelling, "I love you." I don't know what it is.
Jonathan Goldstein
#69. I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.
Mario Vazquez
#70. I love singing along to the radio while I'm riding in the back of a squad car.
Dane Cook
#71. I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.
Shaquille O'Neal
#72. If it came down to it, I wish people heard different records from me that I know give you a soul R&B sound of music that I know is really my gift, gift. But the ones that usually go are the records that radio, the fans and the clubs really love the most.
Jeremih
#73. With the single crossing over to pop radio, it's bringing out new people to the shows. We've got all our metal kids and punk kids who still love us. And then we've got the average joes coming out. We call our fans the 'mixed nuts' because it's all kinds of people out there.
Jacoby Shaddix
#74. One of the reasons I love working in voiceover (and audiobooks) so much is that I'm an old soul, and every time I go up to the microphone, I feel like I'm doing a classic radio play or something. I really like that.
Jason Frazier
#75. I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.
Graham Russell
#76. I'd love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn't happen.
Miranda Lambert
#77. I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if I didn't make my statement in three minutes and 59 seconds. Everybody's song has to make its point so quickly.
Anita Baker
#78. I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.
Steve Lacy
#79. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language.
Indira Varma
#80. I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.
Dweezil Zappa
#81. I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more.
Katy Perry
#82. Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
Gertrude Stein
#83. I wonder about guys like Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann and Mark Levin. They're on such a mission. I mean, I love Hannity and Levin to death, but on the radio they're insane. How can you keep that up?
Don Imus
#84. A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!
Gerry Mulligan
#85. I heard people say that when you lose someone you love, they keep thinking they see him. Like when a stranger walks by, they'll do a double take to make sure it's not him. They'll hear his voice in a cafe only to realize that what they heard was the sound of some baritone DJ on the radio.
Kyra Davis
#86. The Agora had fallen, too.
Vince turned the radio off, dismissing what they'd just heard, and merged onto I-87. A little shriek of madness sounded in the back of his brain, but he said, with admirable calm considering, Seriously, love, I think we've got this.
Erin Kellison
#87. I love pop music, but I feel like the genre is overpopulated - there was so much bubblegum for a while, but I feel like Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran are bringing good, real music back to the radio.
Jacob Whitesides
#88. I had a pretty regular childhood, with a rad mum who taught me to love reading and thinking and laughing, and (as far as I was concerned) a regular dad who drove trucks for a living and did radio interviews on weekends and got stopped in the street a lot when we went out.
Brooke Fraser
#89. I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
Eddie Trunk
#90. My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.
Greta Salpeter
#91. My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.
Blake Shelton
#92. I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.
Stephen Root
#93. I know that some night
in some bedroom
soon
my fingers will
rift
through
soft clean
hair
songs such as no radio
plays
all sadness, grinning
into flow.
Charles Bukowski
#94. Did you see that guy in the back, from the radio station?'
His smile is a jar full of fireflies.
'Crazy Girl,' he says.
'All I saw was you.
Hilary T. Smith
#95. I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
Ice-T
#96. I turned on the radio and scrolled through the stations until I found a new song by Maroon Five that I really liked. Susan reached over, turned it up louder, and began singing with Adam Levine. "He's so hot," she said, as the song ended. "I need to buy one of his CDs." "Yeah, I love his voice.
Kristen Middleton
#97. It's not that we don't want to be all over the radio. I'd love to have a hit single. However, I also want to be in the business a long time and longevity is something that we all wanted. In order to have that, you have to be true to what you do and to each other.
Margo Timmins
#98. I'm so excited. I love radio and being on the new Mix 102.9.
Khloe Kardashian
#99. I love music, particularly Radiohead, TV on the Radio, The XX and Tribes - they're a great new band from Camden and well worth a look at.
Luke Treadaway
#100. Billy Joel was on the radio, singing, "I love you just the way you are." Big talk, Myron mused, when you've been married to Christie Brinkley.
Harlan Coben