Judy Collins Quotes

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.

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

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

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

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

Survival, I know, is to begin again.

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

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.

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

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live

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!

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

... even the devil works for God.

Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.

When you have a belief, then you make your views known.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

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

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.

When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years.