Richard Quest Quotes

I've always trusted my natural instinct because nobody ever taught me how to be on the radio or produce a show, and I never went to broadcasting school or anything like that.

Radio was my first love as a broadcaster and where it all began for my on-air career.

I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.

I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off that. No matter how successful I become, I always look at radio as the only skill set I can really call on. I even know how to operate the boards.

I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for NPR, is much closer to writing than it is to television.

Radio is in my blood.

I love radio and have done a little bit for years - since 'Workers' Playtime' in the 1950s. It's also a good springboard for comedians.

I have always loved radio as a medium.

Ray and I both grew up with radio. Our whole hopes for the future were that we'd get into radio.

I've been working in radio on and off for most of my career. There's a restfulness about it. It's more focused on the voice, so you don't have to worry about extraneous things like sound effects, as there's someone there to look after that.

In 2009, it was the right time to start working in the radio industry.

At 14, I began working in radio. I ran the board at a little radio station in Dallas.

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

I love radio, and I haven't done it - other than the actual 'Doctor Who' - for so long now. It takes a different kind of discipline and a different kind of enjoyment, really.

I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.

I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

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

I was a radio presenter in Dubai for five years.