Judy Collins Quotes

Everyone who hears our music loves it, but how many people get to hear it?

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.

I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

Some musicians like to decorate their walls with discs saying: '1 million records sold in America.' I prefer to put up discs marking sales in lesser-known countries.

I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

Even though I am signed to an American label, I want Australia to fall in love with my music because if it doesn't work here, it won't work anywhere.

One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

There's no real music on television unless it's music television, and then it's expensive videos, which people like me can't do.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

There's a lot of people out there - like, a lot of people out there - that wouldn't know our music if it wasn't for Spotify.

I think it's really cool when any of your songs play on the radio for the first time.

I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.