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
suicide fighting criminals
We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
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 people connections
I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.
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.
suicide cancer thinking
I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.
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 concerts days goes road seventy
I'm always on tour, so that's something that goes on that's pretty constant. Seventy to 80 concerts a year. I'm on the road about 160 days a year.
alive call feelings joy
I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. I call them part of the joy of living, and they are there for all of us.
american-musician bad days songs
If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful.
american-musician country early houses records sang success terms
I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.
absolutely crazy culture desperate everywhere hip reflected search
This is a crazy culture. Absolutely nutty. You see it reflected everywhere you look, the desperate search -- who are we, what are we, can we ever make if in the hip world? On the scene, on the go, in the know.
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.