Judith Durham Quotes

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

Music can tear me up inside.

Music has a way of getting inside all of us and lifting us up.

The power of music is undeniable.

I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.

It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

I like music that just gives you goose bumps.

What passions cannot music raise or quell?

There is power in music, certainly when an audience starts to show up and you have the option to send good messages.

Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music.

I know music is just powerful in itself and to have someone say the words that I sat down and wrote changed their life or made them feel a certain way, that hits something in you.

I feel like music is, you know, made to inspire, to heal, and to cope with. So, I hope that when my fans, or even just people who stumble across my music, I hope they get some type of feeling from it.

Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.

I know how music makes me feel; I know how it affects my life.

A song is an emotional lightning bolt - a good one, anyway.

The most incredible part of seeing people embrace and recognize my music is experiencing the lives of people when they are powerfully affected, encouraged, and personally impacted.

My favorites are songs that I get an emotional charge from, whatever genre they're in.