Bob Edwards Quotes

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.

Between 2 And 5 I'm Reading In To Find Out What's Been Going On While I've Been Asleep.

I Wake About 1 A.m. I'm In The Office By 2 A.m. We're On The Air At 5.

I Was Encouraged To Read Aloud In Class And Vocalize.

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.

People Are Always Ready To Admit A Man's Ability After He Gets There.

I Go Home By Noon, And I'm In Bed By 6 P.m. I Get Up At 1 And Do It Again.

I Used To Listen To The Soap Operas With My Grandmother.

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.

I've Never Been Able To Predict The Future Of Anything.

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.

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.