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

Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.
Bob Edwards

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.
Bob Edwards

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

But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
Bob Edwards

Good things just keep happening.
Bob Edwards

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

I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.
Bob Edwards

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.
Bob Edwards

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
Bob Edwards


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

I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.
Bob Edwards

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
Bob Edwards

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
Bob Edwards

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.
Bob Edwards

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.
Bob Edwards

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

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.
Bob Edwards

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.
Bob Edwards

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
Bob Edwards