Ira Glass Quotes

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

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

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.

I had a little radio, and I listened to music in my bedroom when I was supposed to be sleeping. I was probably 6 or 7 years old, and I loved the DJs who would come on and talk about the artists and the songs they were singing, and they gave away prizes. I was like, 'This is a cool job!'

I have always loved radio as a medium.

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

I fell in love with radio once I started working there, and I never stopped.

My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way.

A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

I went into radio in 1965 when I got a license for CJOR 600 AM. It was my second business.

I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.

Radio is in my blood.

I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.

I grew up on radio, not TV.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

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

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard.

More often than not, my reference point is not the kids or the grandkids but myself when I was that age. I remember the days at Hartranft Elementary and Stewart Junior High in Norristown.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

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.

The new national campfire - radio.