Top 68 Quotes & Sayings by Judith Durham

We wanted to be ourselves, to sing and speak with our own accent and it was fantastic that we were not asked to change.

Look, I do spray flies, but I have a really big conscience.

Everyone who reaches a milestone birthday in their lives has an opportunity to truly appreciate the fact that presumably we have acquired all the gifts that maturity and age can bring us.

Never did I dream that while I was feeling so self-conscious and inadequate in the '60s, I was actually creating The Judith Durham Look!

It seems that singing is the only thing I've been able to do and fortunately it seems to be useful!

In 1990 I had a nasty car accident and in 1994 my husband Ron Edgeworth died of motor neurone disease.

I'm certainly never running away from the Seekers again.

The fact that I can go to a museum and I can see one of my dresses there I start to think, 'Crikey!'

If I ever have to return to dressmaking I still have that possibility.

Generosity of spirit is worthwhile. I've had many requests over the years to attend things, to sing somewhere. I try not to turn things down if I don't have to. The easiest thing is to say you can't manage it, but often it's more rewarding to agree to do something for someone.

I lost the power to write and I had to sort of relearn how to read and write to a certain extent and speak fluently.

I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.

Death is just a continuation of life.

It's important to keep music in your life in some way.

I never felt like a pop star. I never ever.

I've never used an app.

The sound of the Seekers, that four-part harmony sound, three boys and a girl, is so unlikely, you would not choose those four voices to blend together.

Music is nourishment.

My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.

My role models came in my imagination, from what I'd heard on the radio or on record... Vera Lynn I loved, but I'd only ever heard her on the radio. Gospel singers, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson. So it was in my head that I visualised the emotion but no way to see how people do it.

We were just four unknown, aspiring Australian musicians singing happy, uplifting, melodic and inspiring songs, and being true to ourselves.

When i was younger I was much more self focussed. I was worried about my self-image. I thought I was too fat. I was very critical of myself, and then I met and got to know and understand my husband. He helped me turn myself around. He had such a positive attitude towards life.

No longer do I have these terrible complexes I had when I was younger, and I am able to enjoy what life's offering me.

I used to delight in eating the most exotic meat on the menu: I'd have the snails, camel, squid or anything else that was going.

I am quite healthy and very careful about my diet. I take a vitamin B complex, a vitamin C supplement, iron and hemp oil - which is a good source of omega 3 - every day. I don't eat meat, fish or eggs, or anything that's too starchy.

Health is a precious gift. You realise more and more as you get older just how precious a gift it is.

We certainly weren't expecting to become pop stars.

It doesn't matter what it is you're doing, my motto is: the joy is in the doing.

Mum prayed to the Lord that when her children were born they wouldn't be tone deaf. Mum says at two years old I was singing my own little songs, she didn't know where I'd heard it so I must have made it up. I used to sing along with the radio.

You can't under-estimate the power of uplifting melody and words.

It's just as well I can sing as I couldn't do a factory job with all these physical limitations.

I get quite a few proposals on my website. That's very nice. I'm thrilled about that side of life.

I knew exactly what to do in The Seekers but I didn't know what it would be like to be a solo artist.

Once upon a time I did eat meat.

I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke and if I go out to a movie I like to watch things that are moral.

The Seekers have done most things that you'd want to do and when we broke up in the '60s it was partly because we sort of felt we'd done all the things that you could do. There was nothing new.

That's what has always been so surprising for The Seekers - when you think they try to create pop stars in a contrived, manufactured way and we were just four people who just happened to meet and sing together.

You sort of feel when you are given an award, you feel like, well then you have got to do something to deserve having been given the award. It worked differently with me cause I didn't feel that I had done enough.

A lot of my philosophies came from sheet music. 'Some Day My Prince Will Come,' or 'Blue Skies Smiling at Me' - they were very uplifting, wholesome lyrics, and I really believed those words when I sang them.

It's a terrific responsibility trying to look right. There is so much to think about - clothes, makeup, hair. You have to look right for your fans.

Music is a gift to all of us.

I have always believed people can sing themselves, even if they can't sing well, into a place of joy and happiness.

If you join a choir, it's a wonderful outlet.

When you, like if you sing a song and it gets into your brain that it becomes, it repeats and repeats like an affirmation so I find that quite empowering and quite important to keep my positive attitude to life.

Everyone was surprised then that our music got such a foothold because they said 'You're so fresh-faced and wholesome.'

I do marvel at what life puts in your path. It's always the unexpected. But I am lucky to be surrounded by very positive people and during my rehabilitation from the haemorrhage that helped very much.

Everything in life happens for a reason and it's important to embrace it.

Music has always taken me to another plane of existence.

I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it's all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen.

I was shy. But when I sang I felt really empowered.

When I left the Seekers it was because I was unhappy. I wouldn't have left if I'd been happy.

I suffer from bronchiectasis, an obstructive lung disease, and have a little osteoporosis, too.

One of the reasons we had our reunion tours in the '90s was the unexpectedness of how the music had gone, that these songs we'd recorded should have somehow become timeless classics.

It could potentially affect my singing if I wasn't very disciplined about how I eat before I go on stage.

It is true that back in the '60s I was quite frustrated that I never got a chance to speak or be interviewed.

Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything.

They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.

The 'Colours Of My Life' album is literally a 50-year retrospective.

I'm moved by what I hear about the power of music.

I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very very strange.