Bob Edwards Quotes
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I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
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I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.
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The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.
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Some are pre-taped interviews because maybe we can't get that person live or maybe we're not sure it's going to work out right so we tape it an hour in advance.
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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
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I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.
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If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
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The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.
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That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
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Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
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Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.
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People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
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In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.
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When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
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Public radio has always been so powerless.
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I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
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Good things just keep happening.
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Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.
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With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
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But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
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I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.
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I've never been able to predict the future of anything.
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Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
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It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.