Judy Collins Quotes
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I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation
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We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
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I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.
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Humanity is filled with beautiful and positive and powerful people who care. I'm so glad we have people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in the world.
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Rachael Sage is a marvelous young artist- and I am a fan!! 'Haunted by You' has a beauty that shines through her lyrics and melodies-- poignant, tender and tough. These are stories from the heart that will lift you up and carry you to places you had never dreamed.
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Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.
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I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written
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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!
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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!
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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.
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Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.
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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.
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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.
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My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.
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Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
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Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges
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I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.
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The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son
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... even the devil works for God.