Journalist Quotes

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

Good things just keep happening.

No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

I like critics with strong opinions.

Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

Critics should stick to their convictions.

California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the casually giddy lightness of her talk-singing - familiar from her slizzered 2010 cameo on Far East Movement's smash 'Like a G6,' and around-the way-girl frisky like 1980s Latin freestyle.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.