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And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

— Ruben Blades

I was lucky enough to just play music as a living and not have a nine-to-five job. I didn't have to pay the bills…

— Mark Stoermer

I didn't even have a record player as a kid, so everything was down to radio.

— Rory Gallagher

I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it.

— Laura Davies

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

— Gordon Waller

Music was my whole life, not a career. It definitely was never easy... Still isn't.

— Chris Shiflett

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

— Georgie Fame

I left Radio 1 and I was about to have my daughter, Honey, my second child. I had no work at all. None. Zero…

— Fearne Cotton

I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather…

— Kanye West

It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my…

— Ira Glass

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

— Sam Donaldson

Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have…

— Sarah Vowell