Radio Quotes

“Beware of the radio if you want to improve your mind.”

“For many people in the future, radio will take the place of an inner life.”

“Radio is a wonderful invention! One movement of the hand, and nothing is heard.”

“Wikipedia: Radio”

“Radio is much more than television without vision. Incomprehensible, but it is so.”

“A paperless newspaper without distances you are creating will be a great thing.”

“For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall
Concert hall
And echoes with the sound of salesmen.”

“In science fiction novels, the main thing was radio. With it, happiness of mankind was expected. Here is radio now, but there is no happiness.”

“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”

“Of the untold values of the radio, one is the great intimacy it has brought among our people. Through its mysterious channels we come to wider acquaintance with surroundings and men.”

“Radios are everywhere, with at least 75% of households in developing countries having access to a radio.”

“First radio, then television, have assaulted and overturned the privacy of the home, the real American privacy, which permitted the development of a higher and more independent life within democratic society.”

“In 11 countries surveyed across Africa, local commercial radio grew by an average of 360 percent between 2000 and 2006, whereas community radio grew by a striking 1,386 percent, on average, over the same period.”

“I am Radio, the all-knowing, invisible, and omnipresent God which have brought thee out the house of bondage of Time and Space. Seek me and thou will find me everywhere and always. But do not demand from me what I myself am not yet capable of giving thou.”

“All this, I said, just as today was the case with the beginnings of wireless, would be of no more service to man than as an escape from himself and his true aims, and a means of surrounding himself with an ever closer mesh of distractions and useless activities.”

“The most significant meaning of freedom of the radio is the right of the American people to listen to this great medium of communications free from any governmental dictation as to what they can or cannot hear and free alike from similar restraints by private licensees.”

“Radio has contributed to our ‘growing lack of attention.’ .?.?. This sort of hopscotching existence makes it almost impossible for people, myself included, to sit down and get into a novel again. We have become a short story reading people, or, worse than that, a QUICK reading people”

“I only had the radio for a short time before I heard Elvis; it was a game changer for me... It's hard to say whether or not I would have done what I do now if it hadn't been for the transistor radio…I really loved it, it was my favorite gadget… I think it was why rock 'n roll got so big.”

“The Brazilian radio market is the second largest in the Americas, being one step behind the United States. According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) of 2009, radios are present in 88% of homes, 80% of cars in circulation, and in 36% of mobile telephones.”

“Didn't wireless start out to be just a way to beat the cable monopoly? Then some guy started playing dance records on a ham sender, and look at radio now — it's made the country into one big vaudeville house. You engineers and inventors never learn. You can give the public any damn gadget you want, but sooner or later the public is going to find a way to use it to have some fun.”