19th-century Radio Personality Quotes

Sophie Tucker

Paul Whiteman

Hedda Hopper

Charles E. Fuller

Ralph Washington Sockman

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Playing two months or more in one city meant new songs all the time. If people paid their dimes to see and hear Sophie Tucker, they didn't want to hear the same songs over and over or see the same clothes.

Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.

There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are built together, they float. So with the events of my life. Some have been tragic. Some have been happy. But when they are built together, they form a craft that floats and is going places. And I am comforted.

Ralph Washington Sockman

The main subject in the Bible from the beginning of Genesis through Revelation is none other than Jesus.

Charles E. Fuller