Paul Merton Quotes

All I really wanted was to be a full-time disc jockey.

There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think.

I'm syndicated on the radio - my show is called 'The Sweat Hotel.'

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.

The truth is, I was D.J.-ing on my college radio station in 1987, and I was called 'Mad Marj.'

I'm so excited. I love radio and being on the new Mix 102.9.

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

I started doing a half-hour Sunday night talk show on college radio station KUNV. That excited me more than anything I'd ever done. I went through the Yellow Pages to find people who seemed interesting. I'd goof on these people, but they were so excited to be on the radio that they didn't even notice.

I always wanted to be on the radio. But my background is more entertainment than journalism.

Radio is not a job; it's a way of life. You can't really ever leave it.

As a kid I loved to listen to the radio, later I became a radio artiste and would listen to the BBC.

I wanted to be a disc jockey.

I grew up in the age of radio where we just went wherever the jobs were available. The job doing afternoons at Z100 was, funny enough, the only job I could find.

I have always said and maintained that I think being an RJ is the most difficult job in the media business. To have that energy and animation in your voice alone, to capture your audiences through your show, is entertainment in the true sense.

Radio is not a high-paying job; I just enjoyed being on the radio.

I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.

I did anything that would get me on the air.

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

All I wanted to do when I was a teenager was get dropped off at a radio station - one of the ones I listened to - and watch how the shows worked. After a point it was about showing up and driving people crazy, driving the van to promotions and sneaking on the air.

My dad was in radio; he was a broadcaster, and it was in the family. He hosted kind of a game show at one point on TV; he was the original host of 'Good Day New York,' and he hosted the Jerry Lewis telethon for 15 years.

Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.