Bob Edwards

“I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.”

“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.”

“I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.”

“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.”

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

“Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.”

“Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.”

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

“I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.”

“The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.”

“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.”

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

“If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.”

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