Bob Edwards famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
-- Bob Edwards

#Problem #Said #Automobile
With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
-- Bob Edwards

#Radio #Listeners
Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.
-- Bob Edwards

#Long #Earth #Meek
One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
-- Bob Edwards

#Hate #Trouble #Hate You
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.
-- Bob Edwards

#Rivers #Kentucky #Indiana
I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
-- Bob Edwards

#Guy #News #Conservative
Public radio has always been so powerless.
-- Bob Edwards

#Radio #Public Radio #Powerless
If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?
-- Bob Edwards

#Jobs #White #Blue
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.
-- Bob Edwards

#Perfect #Different #Littles
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.
-- Bob Edwards

#Slavery #Genealogy #Impressive
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.
-- Bob Edwards

#Talking #Elements #Excited
I've never been able to predict the future of anything.
-- Bob Edwards

#Able
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.
-- Bob Edwards

#Ambition #College #Rights
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.
-- Bob Edwards

#Issues #Radio #Interviews
The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.
-- Bob Edwards

#Crazy #Pals #Radio
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.
-- Bob Edwards

#Work Out #Interviews #Tape
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
-- Bob Edwards

#Grandmother #Opera #Soap
I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.
-- Bob Edwards

#Home #Bed #Noon
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
-- Bob Edwards

#Class
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.
-- Bob Edwards

#Thinking #Dry Up #Organization
Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.
-- Bob Edwards

#Ties #Looks #Care
I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.
-- Bob Edwards

#Air #Office
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
-- Bob Edwards

#Book #Reading #Reading Books

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