#radio

With radio, the listener absorbs everything. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#listener #radio

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#apart #because #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business. ↗

— Robin Trower

#commercial #radio

When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that. ↗

— George Thorogood

#because #classic #classic rock #come #down

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time. ↗

— Mel Tillis

#country music #days #early #full #less

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#always #arithmetic #entertainment #exercises #had

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio. ↗

— Mel Torme

#broadway #chicago #films #hollywood #hub

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. ↗

— Mel Torme

#being #close #did #eight #even

I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America. ↗

— Mel Torme

#busiest #child #dramatic #eight #got

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#disco #diva #entertainment #folk #folk singer