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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13. -- Questlove
My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio. -- Jessica Sanchez
You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio. -- Nayvadius Cash
I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music. -- Enrique Iglesias
I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me. -- Bernie Worrell
I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too. -- Louise Jameson
I'm a country girl; I like country music. That's what my car radio is on. -- Kim Dickens
A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio. -- Laura Bell Bundy
And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day. -- Ruben Blades
With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition. -- Arlo Guthrie
I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show. -- Marc Edwards
Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio. -- Gordon Smith
You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio. -- Swizz Beatz
As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio. -- Kelis
Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music. -- Kent Beck
Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable. -- Nellie McKay
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
I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country. -- Gretchen Wilson
When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio. -- Lionel Richie
When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff. -- Niklas Zennstrom
Every day FM radio ran out of hours, not music. -- Bob Guccione, Jr.
Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on. -- Lisa M
Even in independent music, people push towards radio. It is very political. -- Dawn Angelique
I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile. -- Dennis Ritchie
I still love the radio. I think the radio is still an important thing in music. -- Caleb Shomo
Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying. -- Milan Kundera
I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it. -- Robert Glasper
This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years. -- Hilary Rosen
Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus. -- Steven Van Zandt
I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it. -- Laura Davies
I look at radio as gone "¦ Piracy is the new radio, that's how music gets around. -- Neil Young
I have a real issue with radio these days. I just am not into the current music. -- Carnie Wilson
Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio. -- Jared Leto
It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio. -- Shelby Lynne
I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show. -- Marc Edwards
Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away. -- Brandon Boyd
The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio. -- Dave Brubeck
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists. -- Anthony Kiedis
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career. -- Abigail Washburn
I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio. -- Bob Dylan
I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have. -- Kim Wilde
I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record. -- Nas
The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship. -- Dweezil Zappa
I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made. -- Sophie Blackall
There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio. -- Geoff Rickly
When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music. -- Dierks Bentley
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars. -- Lenny Kravitz
[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and radio. -- Robert Davi
Life isn't a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played. -- Zayn Malik
[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them. -- Elvis Costello
My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7. -- Steve Wozniak
When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids. -- Prince
Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music. -- Bonnie Raitt
You're in the car, you're talking to somebody, the radio's on, music's playing, you're not really listening to it; you're aware of it; that's passive. -- Rush Limbaugh
When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music. -- Jay Kay
They'd played "Sweet Home, Alabama" so many times I wanted to crash the party, kill the radio, and knife whoever was selecting the music. -- Jennifer Estep
I don't think that the real enemy of the music industry is illegal downloading; I think the real enemy of the music industry is radio. -- Perez Hilton
I don't think my record collection or musical knowledge is vast. I just listen to the radio all the time - I'm a pop music enthusiast. --
Internet is radio for a lot of people. It's a place to get music and hear music, and no amount of clamping down will change that. -- Jeff Tweedy
It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars, skating rinks, and clubs. -- Swizz Beatz
Even the simple act of tuning the radio to a music program can lift our spirits and show the world "I'm not going to give up. -- Shirley Corder
I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio. -- Action Bronson
I love music, particularly Radiohead, TV on the Radio, The XX and Tribes - they're a great new band from Camden and well worth a look at. -- Luke Treadaway
If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important. -- Joe Frank
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today? -- Billy Joel
I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything. -- Jessica Sanchez
We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us. -- Jeff Tweedy
Spread the word about good music. Don't just listen to what's on the radio. If you put in a little effort, you can find some truly wonderful stuff. -- Nikka Costa
I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to. -- Aaron Tveit
I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation. -- Donnie Simpson
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public? -- Bill Wyman
When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake. -- Dave Grohl
I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed. -- Cameron Crowe
The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere. -- Phil Strongman
Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model -- Adam Schiff

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