Quotes About Podcasts

#1. Since neither of us needs sleep we take night buses, sharing earphones and listening to knitting podcasts. If anyone else on the bus notices anything about us they assume it's because they're drunk. I've

Helen Oyeyemi

#2. I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.

Sam Trammell

#3. Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way. When you go see a comedian in standup, that is the most pure, unadulterated form of their art.

Scott Aukerman

#4. Every day I do one or two podcasts that 92 percent of people never will hear. I'm constantly producing, constantly making jokes for Twitter. There's a lot of pressure there. On the flip side, I think having to produce like that makes you a better comedian.

Kurt Braunohler

#5. It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.

Allison Williams

#6. With everything that I've done with YouTube and podcasts for so many years, it's been: you can record it, edit, and then upload that day. With the book and documentary, it's been such a longer process.

Tyler Oakley

#7. So far something which will be good for you will be this podcasts Anything Ghost and The Wicked Library.

Deyth Banger

#8. When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

Ethan Zuckerman

#9. Specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.

Nathan Lowell

#10. A lot of people listen to podcasts because they want to learn something and be entertained along the way.

Alex Blumberg

#11. I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

Jose Gonzalez

#12. Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.

Julie Klausner

#13. My partner, Jeff Ullrich, and I always thought Earwolf was going to be big. There were a couple of studies before we launched saying podcasts were going to really grow. But I remember so many conversations at the beginning where people would say, 'How are you going to make money with this?'

Scott Aukerman

#14. I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore.

Chris Hardwick

#15. I listen to a lot of podcasts, which are split down the middle between comedy and board game podcasts, and a couple of eclectic ones like 'The Dinner Party' from NPR, where they take an event that happened that week in history and give you a cocktail recipe inspired by it.

Rich Sommer

#16. I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so.

Kevin Smith

#17. The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

Ben Schott

#18. People make a big deal about podcasts but it's basically an online radio show with the sound effects and sidekicks, but because you can curse it's more like satellite radio. Most of the podcasters were morning guys who were fired when Clear Channel decimated the radio landscape.

Bill Burr

#19. Dez and I aired most of our podcasts via TalkShoe, but I also frequented Odeo - a kind of podcasting platform-meets-aggregator.

Justine Ezarik

#20. I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms.

Nathan Lowell

#21. Long-haul trucking. Just roaming the country, alone, with audiobooks and podcasts, sleeping in the back of the cab, showering at gas stations at 4 a.m., minimal human contact. That's living the dream.

Mat Johnson

#22. To be honest, because there's loud music in my ears probably three hours a day, between sound check and the show, I listen to podcasts more than I listen to music on the road.

St. Vincent

#23. And the podcasting - I swear to you - on its worst day, the podcasts are better than our best films. Because they're more imaginative, and there's no artifice, and it's far more real.

Kevin Smith

#24. I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

Chris Hardwick

#25. More and more of my audio fans are asking for audiobook versions - files without the intro/outro/etc that go into the podcasts. More and more want them from Audible.

Nathan Lowell

#26. I think that with podcasts, a lot of things are about fostering and having a direct connection with the community.

Chelsea Peretti

#27. Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.

Jason Calacanis

#28. My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace.

Nathan Lowell

#29. I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I'd have so much fun tweeting. It's become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.

Bill Simmons

#30. Upon returning home, she immediately donned the long, silky gloves and was immediately transported to a time of her youth, a time no one in town could ever recall, for it never occurred to anyone who knew her that she had ever been young.

Brooke Warra

#31. My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of 'if you are not hurting anyone, and you're not fucking with someone else's shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be able to just do what you want to do.' It's the freedom and the independence.

Adam Carolla