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You're a familiar voice and if you do it right, if you reach out to them, they want to be a part of your day, in addition to listening to the music. “I think people feel that they know you, so that's what makes them want to come back all the time. “What is the listener feeling or thinking that day? What are their thoughts? I kind of wanted to get in the heads of the listeners because I wanted them to feel like they're the ones that are important, not me. I'm playing the music but it’s for the listener. “Whether or not I succeeded I guess that's for people to decide, but I always wanted to be myself, and my dad always said that, ‘be yourself’, but to be friendly and warm and not make it about me, but make it about the listener," she said. Over the years, her on-air personality grew and evolved a bit, but she says it was always about the music and the listeners, not the DJ. In sharp contrast to many modern radio DJs, which sometimes are the primary draw and can occupy as much as or more airtime than the music, Quill said the goal in her early days was to keep it short and keep the hits spinning. “It was a great run and a great experience and I don't think many people in this business can say that they've been in one radio station for so long,” she said. Today she keeps busy with voiceover work, maintaining a small recording studio at home. Instead, Quill stuck with Magic for 38 years. We were we were the same age and we were at the same spot in our careers and we were hired the same day." We started at the same time, we were hired in December of 1981.
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“You just never know, because in this business it's hard to maintain employment in one place, and I was fortunate, and my coworker David Allan Boucher, who just retired. “Now you can hear Def Leopard on a soft-rock radio station and we never played Def Leopard or anything like that back in the '80s when Magic was first starting out, so it had to evolve with the times. That's the way radio is and I think the success of Magic was that we always kept up with the changing taste of the audience. The demographics would change and we would change with it, and so our music would change.” "Of course, soft rock back in the early '80s is a lot different than the softer music of today, which is actually a little bit more intense. “That's what we called ourselves, ‘continuous soft rock,’ and we kind of evolved with the times," Quill said. Magic 106.7 is known in Boston and throughout the region for playing on the hits on the lighter side of the musical genres, just the thing to help listeners unwind amidst the midday hustle. “But I think a lot of that is because we were such a successful radio station and we played just the right music. We had a lot of listeners and I was lucky enough that in my time slot we had a lot of people listening at that time of day, so I'm really fortunate that I was part of a radio station that was very successful.”