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Keep Your Feet On The Ground And Keep Reaching For Stars.
-Casey Kasem
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Keep Your Feet On

Casey Kasem
Keep Your Feet On The Ground And Keep Reaching For Stars.
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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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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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Growing Up, I Actually Wanted To Be A Professional Baseball Player, Instead Of A Radio Dj. Believe It Or Not.
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My First Commercial Was For Miller High Life Beer.
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Vegetarianism Is The Cure For 99% Of The World's Problems. Think About It.
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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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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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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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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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Because Of My Background In Theater And Radio Acting, I Knew That I Could Make A Living As An Actor.
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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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Anytime In Radio That You Can Reach Somebody On An Emotional Level, You're Really Connecting.
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The Group Bananarama Has Such A Light, Cutesy-pie Sound That They Make The Go-go's Sound Like Led Zeppelin By Comparison.
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Pie
Sound
Basically, Radio Hasn't Changed Over The Years.
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Changed
I Like The Storytelling And Reading The Letters, The Long-distance Dedications.
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A Non-violent World Has Roots In A Non-violent Diet.
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Violent
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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Long
I Accentuate The Positive And Eliminate The Negative. That Is The Timeless Thing.
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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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I Was Drafted And Went To Korea Where I Had An Opportunity To Create A Production Team That Did Dramatic And Comedy Shows. I Had Also Done A Little Disc Jockeying.
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I Must Have Done About 25,000 Promos.
Done
Always Be Consistent.
Consistent
It's Been Amazing, The Number Of Commercials That I've Done, Starting Back In 1968. It Must Be 8,000.
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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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