Ira Glass Quotes

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

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 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 the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.

One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls.

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

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

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

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

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

You really do live through someone's life when you hear him six hours a day.

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.

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.

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

The part that I loved about radio wasn't getting on the air - it was all this great stuff my listeners would tell me.

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

My favorite time at NPR has been 'Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!' It was loads of fun and gave me a chance to meet and talk in person to the audiences that I felt I had known for so many years on the air.

It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.

I went to Sirius Satellite Radio and did my show, Rapping With Rip.

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.

Los Angeles has been my home since the days even before Motley Crue, so I am beyond excited that 'The Side Show' has found a home on 98.7 FM. This is the station I listen to - my friends listen to it, my family listens to it. It's the station I wanted to be on, and I'm psyched to get started.

Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.

I used to have a radio show. That's how I started foolin' around with recording.

There's nothing like live radio. I like the challenge. Throw it my way. Let me go!