Judith Durham Quotes

I realized that there was much more to my voice than I'd ever been led to explore and that I could make my own songs.

It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

I want to find my own rhythm and style. That's probably the harder way to approach it, but I think it will pay off in the long run.

I didn't leave the band to go solo so much as to stop feeling like a production item.

I'm kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.

One of the very few things that I actually read about myself on blogs that got to me was people saying, 'Ne-Yo doesn't do R&B music anymore.' Just because I stepped off the porch to explore doesn't mean I don't live in that house anymore.

I can show my characteristics and musical colors both as a member of Bigbang and as a solo artist.

My parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their music; I wanted to play the music that I wanted to play, and I'm so lucky that today I get to play that music, even though I don't like every song I write.

I love writing songs, but I don't want to write the songs everyone else is asking me to write.

I started out in rock, but I didn't want to stay there, and haven't.

I have different sounds... I don't want to be just that girl that sings reggaeton or trap music.

The whole reason to make a solo album is to express what you can't express with the B-52s. The B's are so much about fun and partying and dancing.

The solo album is really my way of branching out and doing my own thing. I'm mostly known for playing other people's music, so this is a way to just do something that is purely from my heart and my creativity. So it's really exciting.

The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea of doing it on my own in my future career.