Words matter. These are the best Bob Edwards Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Public radio has always been so powerless.
It’s also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one’s brain. There are no pictures to distract.
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.
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.
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
I’ve never been able to predict the future of anything.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
Now I know what a statesman is; he’s a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
I’m a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
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.
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.
I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.
I wake about 1 a.m. I’m in the office by 2 a.m. We’re on the air at 5.
Good things just keep happening.
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women’s right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
Between 2 and 5 I’m reading in to find out what’s been going on while I’ve been asleep.