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Our records are commodities. We're looking to make a sale. The radio stations are looking to get the advertising dollars. The end. Ali Shaheed Muhammad

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It's so hard to pick a 'single.' I always want it to be whatever my favorite tune is, but often the record company and the person whose job it is to take it to radio have different ideas. Alison Goldfrapp

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect. Alison Gopnik

Telegraph Effect Improvement Same Transformative Exponential Radio

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. Alistair Cooke

People Listening Back Like Lean America Forward Radio Britain

I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you're listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I'm serious. Listen to your radio station. Alvin Lee

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The radio stations will happily recycle a badly worded statement by a politician all day but will steer clear of broadcasting more than once or twice a poem by Tomas Transtromer or Rita Dove. Amitava Kumar

Growing up, I didn't come from a musical family. Neither of my parents played an instrument, sang out loud, or listened to the radio with frequency. The record collection in the living room was only about 2 feet long - and that included 4 solid inches of Neil Diamond and Herb Alpert. Amor Towles

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Before I had satellite radio installed in my car, I thought I would lose my mind listening to commercials and having limited choices on the dial. Your car is your home in L.A., so you've got to have some good stuff to listen to. Amy Landecker

My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what. Anat Cohen

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The fact that 'Honey, I'm Good' made such a splash and that people were catching it on radio, on Spotify, on Pandora, it's driving everybody to go hear the album. Andy Grammer

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I love songs, and I love to tell stories, and so a lot of times, if you really want a good story, you got to flip the radio dial over to country. Andy Grammer

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I do radio gigs, three-minute spots, solo shows, so I still get plenty of practice at the sniper attack - me at a piano or with a guitar, having to win people over fast. Andy Grammer

Me People Guitar Win Practice Plenty Solo Gigs Having Attack Piano Over Spots Still Get Radio Shows Fast

I've always trusted my natural instinct because nobody ever taught me how to be on the radio or produce a show, and I never went to broadcasting school or anything like that. Angie Martinez

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My mother was a great influence in my life and my career. She not only helped me master the business side of radio, but she also taught me how to conduct myself. Angie Martinez

We don't go around the world counting ticket and record sales, nor do we glue our ears to the radio to hear what's trendy at the moment - we're not that type of band. Angus Young

World Band Type Our Ears Trendy Record Record Sales Counting Ticket Around Glue Go Hear Nor Sales Moment Radio

I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if I didn't make my statement in three minutes and 59 seconds. Everybody's song has to make its point so quickly. Anita Baker

Radio means you can play parts that aren't based on your looks or your age. It's a lot of fun. You can do tremendous things - play more diverse characters - that you wouldn't get to do in theatre or TV. Anita Dobson

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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

I want to do more television and I want to do more radio. Anna Benson

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Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers. Annalee Newitz

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In the 1920s and 30s, when Radio Shack was young, a much earlier generation of nerds swarmed into these tiny shops to talk excitedly about building radios and other transmission devices. You might say that Radio Shack helped define gadget culture for four generations, from radio whizzes up to smartphone dorks. Annalee Newitz

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