Judy Collins Quotes

• Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

  Judy Collins

  Topics in Experience, Life, Love

  Tags in Forgiveness

• I don’t think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don’t come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

  Judy Collins

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  Tags in Writers And Writing, Heart, Poetry, Feeling

• Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.

  Judy Collins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attention

• I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love.

  Judy Collins

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  Tags in People

• Writing is a voice that calls us from dreams, that peeks out of the corner of our eyes when we think no one is looking, the longing that breaks our hearts even when we think we should be happiest, and to which we cannot give a name.

  Judy Collins

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  Tags in Writers And Writing

• Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can’t stop.

  Judy Collins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writers And Writing

• I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

  Judy Collins

• I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chance to sing my concerts, make records, and do what I love. Whatever people call it, it is great to have a voice!

  Judy Collins

• I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive.

  Judy Collins

• For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society’s method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

  Judy Collins

• I’ve gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn’t kill you, you get stronger.

  Judy Collins

• This is a crazy culture. Absolutely nutty. You see it reflected everywhere you look, the desperate search — who are we, what are we, can we ever make if in the hip world? On the scene, on the go, in the know.

  Judy Collins

• I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!

  Judy Collins

• If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I’ve treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I’ve found that to be a tremendous help.

  Judy Collins

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Meditation

• I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

  Judy Collins

  Topics in Politics

• Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

  Judy Collins

  Topics in Love, Work

Judy Collins (36)

Birth:	1st May, 1939
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Musician, Singer

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