Bob Edwards Quotes

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.

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

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.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

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'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

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.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

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.

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.

Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

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.

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.

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

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.