Casey Kasem Quotes

• Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.

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  Education, Stars, Learning

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• Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.

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  Men, Talking, Issues

  "Casey Kasem's Reflections on the Power of Radio and Music" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. June 15, 2014.

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• Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You’re only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.

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  People, Vacuums, Happens

  "Casey Kasem, voice of Shaggy in Scooby Doo, dies on Father's Day at 82" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2014.

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• If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

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  Messages, Beats, Audience

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• I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

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  Negative, Timeless, Accentuate

  "Casey At The Mike" by Susan Orlean, www.nytimes.com. May 6, 1990.

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• Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

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  Emotional, Levels, Radio

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• Vegetarianism is the cure for 99% of the world's problems. Think about it.

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  Thinking, Vegetarianism, World

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• I must have done about 25,000 promos.

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  Done

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• A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.

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  Roots, World, Violent

  "Casey Kasem, voice of Shaggy in Scooby Doo, dies on Father's Day at 82" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2014.

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• Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now theyre getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, youve got a hit.

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  Song, Messages, Used

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• The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

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  Bible, Two, Stories

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• I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

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  Distance, Reading, Dedication

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• Some of the things that I do, I think are very important and much more important than the radio show or the television show that I do or anything else that I do. I think right at the top of the list is the basic thing. And of course the basic thing is to hopefully stop people from killing anything. And to create a non-violent diet for themselves, because a non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.

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  Thinking, Roots, People

  "Casey Kasem, voice of Shaggy in Scooby Doo, dies on Father's Day at 82" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2014.

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• We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

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  Distance, Dedication, Long

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• My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.

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  Beer, Firsts

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• For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

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  Talking, Years, Stronger

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• That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

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  Believe, Humanity, Quality

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• Always be consistent.

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  Consistent

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• I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.

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  Couple, College, Years

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• Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years.

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  Years, Radio, Changed

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• I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

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  Voice, Cartoon, Would Be

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• But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

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  Messages, Beats, Music Is

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• Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

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  Song, Used, Used To Be

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• As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.

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  Past, Years, Survivor

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• The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

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  Inspiring, Heart, Stories

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