#ra

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

#exists #listeners #love #most #music

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#him #ipod #me #peter #programmed

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#broccoli #cameras #eat #never

On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#altitude #always #bad #bernard #cried

The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation. ↗

— James Stockdale

#estimation #guy #holds #just #market

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#as far as #era #far #golden #i

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#keep #look #meet #money #shoes

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties. ↗

— James Stockdale

#had #i #laws #mean #our

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. ↗

— James Stockdale

#air #another #bombs #december #eighteenth

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf. ↗

— James Stockdale

#any #around #bay #beach #became