- Games
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- Nov 07, 2020
Radio Quotes
On the sound that filled the room before screens did.
These lines lean nostalgic, from someone recalling the first radio they ever saw, bulky enough to take up an entire wall, to a preference for old radio shows over scrolling a phone. Related: Music.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most artists over 40 or 50 don't get played on the radio. It's a young people's game. I was ready for that.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to tell the city that 2Pac passed, and I had to be on the radio early after Biggie passed. Those were awful, emotional.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I catch Filter in Des Moines doing their soundcheck at a small club. After tearing through a few songs, they spend nearly an hour meeting with fans as part of a radio station meet-and-greet.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.
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- Nov 07, 2020