When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978,… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties.… — Ira Glass Copy Share
I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for… — Ira Glass Copy Share
I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I… — Ira Glass Copy Share
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want… — Ira Glass Copy Share
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for… — Ira Glass Copy Share
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. — Ira Glass Copy Share
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice… — Ira Glass Copy Share
In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it. — Ira Glass Copy Share
I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is… — Ira Glass Copy Share
I remember clearly that when I was little it was explained to me [that] the way that babies were made was that God put… — Ira Glass Copy Share
