Angie Martinez Quotes

I have always loved broadcasting - as a child in Liverpool, I would wake up and listen to Morning Merseyside on BBC Radio Merseyside and wonder, 'How do they do that?'

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

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.

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

If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off that. No matter how successful I become, I always look at radio as the only skill set I can really call on. I even know how to operate the boards.

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for NPR, is much closer to writing than it is to television.

I love radio and have done a little bit for years - since 'Workers' Playtime' in the 1950s. It's also a good springboard for comedians.

I was a radio presenter in Dubai for five years.

I've been working in radio on and off for most of my career. There's a restfulness about it. It's more focused on the voice, so you don't have to worry about extraneous things like sound effects, as there's someone there to look after that.

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

I had no real respect for good technique because I didn't know what it was. I was self-taught, so that stuff didn't matter to me.

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

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

I was directing before I knew it was called that.

It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.

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

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

It's second nature. You just get out there and play basketball.

It's not easy to change the way you play when you are 30.

Most good players play on intuition. Everyone has a little, but I don't know if you can learn it.

I don't have an MBA, I don't have a qualification in music, but I am doing both - business and music - and I am doing quite well.