Radio Quotes South Africa

 
"In a South Africa with limited job opportunities, it calls for more agility and being open to new career paths and not being hung up on what you studied."
KFM station manager Stephen Werner in this week's #BehindtheSelfie

"I think young people should not be afraid to take up space and know that our thoughts, ideas and observations are valid. Imposter syndrome can be so real when entering an industry as a fresh new talent. Knowing that you have the potential and capability to bring about change is a key starting point."
KFM's Mamohau Seseane on how young voices can bring change

"A quick mind, a sharp wit, a bit of lateral thinking, a good attitude and a reliable PC."
Radio presenter Simon Hill lists the tools of his trade in this week's #BehindtheSelfie

"I like music because its the only invisible art form."
Anonymous

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
Maya Angelou

"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."
Leopold Stokowski

"Every great inspiration is but an experiment."
Charles Ives, Composer

"For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again."
Paula Cole

"Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."
Ludwig van Beethoven

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
Plato

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
Leo Tolstoy

"You have to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with "Mr. In-between"."
Johnny Mercer

"God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs, nor kick ourselves too easily."
Author unknown

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
Brian Tracy

"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth."
Bonnie Friedman

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
Chinese Proverb

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything."
Herbert Gardner

"Never before the advent of radio did advertising have such a golden opportunity to make an ass out of itself. Never before could advertising be so insistent and so unmannerly and so affront its audience."
William J. Cameron, director of PR for Ford Motor Company, 1938.


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