Judy Collins
Judy Collins
Judith Marjorie Collins, affectionately known as "Judy Blue Eyes," is an American singer and songwriter known for her eclectic tastes in the material she recordsand for her social activism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth1 May 1939
CitySeattle, WA
CountryUnited States of America
allowed songs
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.
american-musician designed korean louis mall memorial song walls wrote
I wrote a song called walls with my husband, Louis Nelson, who designed the new Korean Veteran's Memorial Wall on the Mall in Washington, D.C.
weapons helpful used
Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.
powerful husband son
The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son
music feelings important
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.
artist opportunity labels
The rise of the Internet has caused the demise of the record labels, and has destroyed the music business of old, but it's also created new opportunities for young artists.
survival begin-again knows
Survival, I know, is to begin again.
forget-everything alzheimers funny-irish
Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges
depression suicide meditation
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.
suicide fighting criminals
We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
stronger gone killing
I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.
teacher new-york grateful
I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.
suicide needs helping
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.
suicide recovery fighting
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.