Quotes from Judith Durham

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.

As it turns out, I can see I'm quite a business-minded person as I've developed.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I can have a career right into my old age, creating music in some way. It seems like a lovely way to go through life.

My object is to make people happy with our music.