Eric Carmen Quotes

I never got a stereo system until about 1969. It was only when I went to America in '68 and listened to FM radio; I really thought, 'Wow, there's something in this.'

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

We can get airplay all across the board, from CHR to Active rock.

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

The new national campfire - radio.

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

To be successful in talk radio, you have to have a conservative audience as well. Not enough liberals listen to it.

I've always sort of been at odds with radio programmers.

Air America has tanked because it features a bunch of talentless, angry demagogues who wouldn't know how to entertain a radio audience if their lives depended on it.

I play vinyl and CDs. Playing vinyl is the best sound quality you can get playing music loudly, so that's the main reason I do that.

If getting on the radio was a major motivation, I'd be one of the worst writers of all time. I admire people who do it, and I think it's a nice way to work, but I try to do the best I can and write what I like. I don't worry about it.

I think some songs are better on vinyl.

As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

I have always loved broadcasting - as a child in Liverpool, I would wake up and listen to Morning Merseyside on BBC Radio Merseyside and wonder, 'How do they do that?'

I get tired of people trying to dog out the radio for not playing this or that. There are lots of people who like what they play - otherwise, they wouldn't play it.

There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does it have to have any specific words?' And they said, 'No, it just has to be about FM radio.' It took a day or two to write.

First job I had, I was 17 years old. I was primarily the mail room boy at the radio station. An FM station. And in those days, nobody listened to FM.

I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

I love radio and have done a little bit for years - since 'Workers' Playtime' in the 1950s. It's also a good springboard for comedians.

Listening to the radio makes you hate every song.

I couldn't imagine life without Radio 4.

I love the sound of vinyl best. My sweetheart and I love to put on a vinyl record, it feels and sounds so much better.

Radio was my first love as a broadcaster and where it all began for my on-air career.