Terry Gross Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.”

“I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.”

“Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.”

“I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.”

“I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.”

“Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.”

“Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.”

“I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.”

“The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.”

“I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is, I think, what people often assume. I've never felt that way.”