Radio personality Quotes

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.

I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

Even if I played for a million years, I’d never come close to Maradona.

Not that I’d want to anyway. He’s the greatest there’s ever been.

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

Music always sounds better on Friday.

When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.

Flapping my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I'm the disco duck.

I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.

Growing up I watched examples of how not to treat people.

I knew when I got into certain positions that I wasn't going to talk to people the way that they did. My mindset is, if you want to see the true character of a person watch how they treat those who can't do anything for them.

I pride myself on being the nicest person in the room.

My grandmother always told me, 'Manners will take you where money won't.' When I walk into a room, I say "hello" to everyone I don't care who the person is or what they do, it's simply being respectful.

Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

Vegetarianism is the cure for 99% of the world's problems. Think about it.

I think about everyone in my life that was harsh with me or who gave me tough love and told me things that I didn't want to hear in that moment; fortunately it ended up being really good for me and I have nothing but respect for them today and those are the people I return to when I need that real honest advice.

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The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

As a radio personality, I'm a public servant, we all should be public servants in some way shape or form. I feel like my soul purpose is to be of service to others.

Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.

Best things in life are free, and money can't buy you love.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

If you look at this government and this Donald Trump's administration, this is the same thing that we've been facing for centuries and they're not here to help us. In this moment in time you have to help yourself and we have to help each other.

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.

pain always feels brand new no matter how much experience you've had with it!

As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along.

Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong.

If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!

The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in a weak manner, gentle and tender through the heartbeat of a child.

The only thing that's going to save you is that saving blood of Jesus Christ.

You develop a sensibility when you're a young child.

Some people say your personality is formed in the first three, four years of your life.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, lovin you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars, tell me who i have to be, to get some reciprocity.

The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on...it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it 'Jumping the Shark.' From that moment on, the program will simply never be the same.

those who fail to plan, plan to fail!

One's concentration as a performer must remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

Some of the things that I do, I think are very important and much more important than the radio show or the television show that I do or anything else that I do. I think right at the top of the list is the basic thing. And of course the basic thing is to hopefully stop people from killing anything. And to create a non-violent diet for themselves, because a non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

Oh absolutely. Look they hate all conservatives but they have a special kind of loathing for women conservatives.

There's some benefit to being happy in your life. Of looking around and saying, 'This is mine.