“Never in a million years will you hear somebody on the radio say "I'm up for runnin' up on them crackers in city hall."”

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American comedian 1973

Donald Miller book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality

Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

“If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“The nightmare of every government on earth is a million people assembled in the town square of your capital city, demanding that you pack up to Switzerland. no body can say No to a million people on the streets.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

History Ends in Green (1983)

“No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that…"”

Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author

1990s, Schafer interview (1995)

“Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“What I do is dangerous for sponsors, dangerous for editors. But I'm really a radio kid. I grew up on radio, not TV. Ultimately, I'll probably do radio.”

David Lee Roth (1954) Rock vocalist; lead singer with Van Halen

Chuck Darrow (May 30, 2003) "'Diamond Dave' rehashes old tunes to new beats", Courier-Post, p. 22S.

“If you think about how you sound on the radio while you are on the radio, you will fuck up how you sound on the radio.”

Kai Ryssdal (1963) Radio host, United States Navy officer

Interviewed by Sarah Ball, "What you should know about Kai Ryssdal" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/11/kai-ryssdal-marketplace-profile, Vanity Fair (November 2013).

“Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

Oui interview (1979)
Context: Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.

“Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.”

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Polish composer

Said to one of his students, according to "Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by His Pupils" by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger

“You can't hear me.
You can't hear me.
You can't hear what I'm saying.
You can't hear what I'm saying to you.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave

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