Judith Durham Quotes

I love Top 40 pop, don't get me wrong; I just don't think that there's anyone in Top 40 pop that's 'real.'

With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like a pop star.

I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.

I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.

I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.

Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

I don't like to let people know where I'm going to end up, and I don't personally like to know where I'm going.

I never planned on a career in music at all, so I should say I'm very lucky.

Not even the creators of 'Rock Band' could possibly believe that playing the game is tantamount to making your own music. There is, however, a sad similarity between 'Rock Band' and some actual bands, and that is the attempt at realness.

I'd like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it's someone who is completely unknown who I love and think is a talent, maybe I'll work with them, or, like, maybe I'll work with some of the biggest pop stars and write music for them.

The first time I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards, I thought I'd bump into people who mattered, such as Ry Cooder or Randy Newman. I was disappointed to see the people I'd always thought of as pop stars. They would charge around the stage rather than enjoy the music.

A lot of people make music to sell music. I don't just sell music. I am essentially, I guess the word I want to use is, it's like an energetic transaction.

I was a total nerd and had, like, two friends, and then I left my school and got signed to a record deal.

I never took lessons. And I never aspired to be a singer until I was one in a band.

I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.