Radio 4 Quotes

#1. I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

Helen McCrory

#2. Maybe if you listen to Radio 4 enough from an early age, you just get educated subliminally

David Nicholls

#3. Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending ... you're still enthralled.
(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

Hilary Mantel

#4. If poor doomed Olly's a Radio 4 play, what am I?""
"You, Hugo," she kisses my earlobe, "are a sordid, low-budget French film. The sort you'd stumble across on TV at night. You know you'll regret it in the morning, but you keep watching anyway.

David Mitchell

#5. Most people were annoyed with my voice, I think, because I'm working-class, and that doesn't sound quite right on Radio 4.

Rhys Thomas

#6. I think it is easy for people to build up an image of what I'm about. I consider myself quite a nice chappy really. I'm decent to people, I stay in and listen to Radio 4.

Jay Kay

#7. I am not much of a TV addict, and if I have a day off, and I'm pottering around at home, I will always listen to Radio 4.

Phyllis Logan

#8. I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

Catherine McCormack

#9. People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

Ridley Scott

#10. What a world, eh? Sometimes I wish I could just live somewhere on Radio 4.

Ben Elton

#11. My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.

Peter James

#12. As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

Steve Coogan

#13. 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

#14. I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.

Imelda Staunton

#15. The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.

Rachel Joyce

#16. Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

Juan Williams

#17. I like creating something from nothing and hearing it on the radio or on stage or from somebody driving down the street singing it. It's like building a house, taking a vacant piece of land, and next thing you know, there's a house with somebody living in it.

Harvey Mason Jr.

#18. Darkness doesn't fall, he thought as he swayed to the radio, it rises up from the bottom of the sea and begins to breathe around us.

Colum McCann

#19. I think, it's so difficult to create a buzz anywhere, whether it be online, the streets, radio, anywhere, that if you are able to create a buzz somewhere, it definitely means something.

Joe Budden

#20. Adiation ... the biggest lobby ... in the world. It's involved in university research ... industries ... the whole medical profession.., the whole military establishment, and the economic and military policy of the country depends on people being willing to handle radio-active materials.

Rosalie Bertell

#21. The talk shows I've done are all radio for exactly this reason: I don't want to wear a rubber mask.

Gregory Benford

#22. I like to argue with the radio.

P. J. O'Rourke

#23. In truth, Jude suspected that Danny had no particular musical preferences, no strong likes or dislikes, and that the radio was just background sound, the auditory equivalent of wallpaper.

Joe Hill

#24. 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.

Scott Greenstein

#25. Since the day I got in radio at the age of 15, I always wanted everyone with ears listening to me. I don't know how to narrow that down.

Donnie Simpson

#26. Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

Bernard Goldberg

#27. You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Will.i.am

#28. The radio makes hideous sounds.

Bob Dylan

#29. I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows, I wouldn't talk to the audience very much. Then my friend offered me a radio show, and I thought, you know, I'll try talking to people and see what kind of interviewer I was.

Scott Aukerman

#30. I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.

Faith Hill

#31. I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

Matthew Sweet

#32. 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

#33. Public radio has always been so powerless.

Bob Edwards

#34. Me and my cousin, most of the time we worked on radios and fixed them. I guess we started because I was curious to understand how radios work. When I was little, I used to think there were small people inside. Most of the time, I was just trying to see the people who are speaking in the radio.

William Kamkwamba

#35. Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

Iris Dement

#36. I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.

Kenny G

#37. But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

Ira Glass

#38. I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

Christina Applegate

#39. It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.

Mike Gordon

#40. When I try to picture heaven, I see a place where it's always December, every radio station plays hair bands, and every time I check my pockets they're full of Hershey's Kisses. There's a Christmas parade on every street, every day is my birthday, and the sun always sets at 4:58 p.m.

Damien Echols

#41. So I'm explaining intrinsic value to my 4 year old daughter - who loves toy cats - and ask her, if she was really thirsty in the desert, whether she would like a bottle of water, or a toy cat, and she tells me that she would like a bottle of water in the shape of a toy cat.
Unarguable.

Stefan Molyneux

#42. Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite the fact that our world is the poster child for habitability.

Seth Shostak

#43. The more you push the budgets up, the more you make records cost $20, the more you make records last 4 and 5 minutes on the radio.

Queen Latifah

#44. I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.

R. Kelly

#45. I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

Ellie Goulding

#46. I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

Ed Harris

#47. I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that means you went to the store. iTunes Radio lets you discover it without you having to think about it.

Eddy Cue

#48. The body consists of three parts: the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain. The borax contains the heart and lungs and the abominable cavity contains the bowels of which there are five: a, e, i, o, u.

Tom Magliozzi

#49. Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.

Alex Pareene

#50. Psychology is a soft weapon but you can take out
more enemy battalions with leaflets and radio broadcasts than with high explosives.

Nelson DeMille

#51. My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.

Robin Thicke

#52. I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it.

Laura Davies

#53. 'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go Crazy' was number one on R&B stations, and there's nothing that's been like that on radio since.

Prince

#54. Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

Talib Kweli

#55. You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein

#56. There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

Sam Tsui

#57. But by doing impressions, you can broaden that scope," Valli told a National Public Radio interviewer much, much later. "There will be more possibilities when you're singing.

Jennifer Warner

#58. I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while.

Martin Milner

#59. On a radio drama, I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr. Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non-white.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#60. Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

Phil Simms

#61. It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.'
'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.'
'You can hear radio waves?'
'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.

Neil Gaiman

#62. I 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 Ocean

#63. HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.

Charles Simonyi

#64. We've been really lucky. We've gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord knows I don't do a whole lot to promote myself.

Bob Seger

#65. In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

Huey Lewis

#66. When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

Ian Axel

#67. We're a gumbo of American music, and aren't ashamed to play pop or soul or rock because we all grew up on radio.

Jonathan Cain

#68. I'll always be fascinated with radio. Radio allows you to have a one-to-one relationship with the person sharing the music with you. You can also do very many things if you're listening to the radio, things you can't so if you're watching TV or watching a phone.

David Rodigan

#69. Every time I meet people working in radio, I'm a little embarrassed. It's all pre-programmed, rigidly formatted stuff. Time and time again, when I talk to jocks, they say how jealous they are of the freedom we have on WKRP. I sometimes have to explain to them that it's not a real radio station.

Howard Hesseman

#70. When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music, and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours; it was just so cool to me.

Lizzo

#71. If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.

Matt Groening

#72. The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

Isaac Asimov