Quotes from Judith Durham

Once upon a time I did eat meat.

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.

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.

I love the Seekers, they're part of me, and always will be.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Music has always taken me to another plane of existence.

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.

I always felt I was going to be famous.

We've led pretty wholesome lives. We haven't lived life to excess like so many groups have done.

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.

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

Music is a gift to all of us.

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

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

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

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

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.