I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.
Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.
The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.
Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.
Plus, I've always felt that, if the worst came to the worst in my career, I could always fall back to doing voices on the radio.
When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records were always around to listen to.
Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.
One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.
John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.
Radio allowed me to be a creator, and TV stole that creation from me by literalizing - and to some extent limiting - my vision.
I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.
I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio.
There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.
It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.
I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.
When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after, I would be singing it.
Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
