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| “ | I, madam, I made radio! So I dared! Am I mad, am I? | ” |
— Spider Robinson - a palindrome.
Selected quote 2
| “ | The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve. | ” |
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| “ | Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. | ” |
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| “ | Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless. | ” |
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| “ | It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on. | ” |
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| “ | I listened to Jack Benny on the radio last night. He was so funny I dropped my pad and pencil. | ” |
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| “ | If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. | ” |
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| “ | My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. | ” |
Selected quote 9
| “ | 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 - when asked to describe radio
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| “ | Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. | ” |
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| “ | The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. | ” |
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| “ | 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. | ” |
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| “ | When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter. | ” |
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| “ | The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio. | ” |
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| “ | I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Billie Holiday. Before television when there was radio. | ” |
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| “ | 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. | ” |
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| “ | Radio was the greatest training ground. You had to be very quick and you had to be very versatile... and you were surrounded by such wonderful actors. | ” |
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| “ | You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space. | ” |
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| “ | People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice. | ” |
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| “ | Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk. | ” |
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| “ | With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. | ” |
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| “ | Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds. | ” |
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| “ | Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world. | ” |
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| “ | Radio tried everything, and it all worked. It invented a new kind of singer whose voice wasn't even loud enough to carry across a hotel bedroom, and Americans, as it turned out, would rather hear these "crooners" than any big-bellied tenor who ever shook an opera house chandelier. | ” |
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| “ | George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk. | ” |
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| “ | Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio. | ” |
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| “ | Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. | ” |
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| “ | The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants. | ” |
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| “ | When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot. | ” |
Usage
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- Add a new selected quote to the next available subpage.
- Update "max=" to new total in the {{Random portal component}} call on the main page.
Nominations
Radio quotes will be nominated here.