Creativity Quote by Judy Collins

There is something disarmingly radical about an artist naming a favorite. Judy Collins is careful here: not “the best song,” not “my greatest achievement,” but “the one I may like… best.” That hedge matters. It keeps the statement human, provisional, and intimate, more like a confession than a verdict. For a musician whose career has spanned shifting tastes, politics, and production styles, “may” is a way of honoring how songs change as you change.

The title “Blizzard” does a lot of quiet work. A blizzard is overwhelming, whitening, erasing landmarks; it’s also strangely clarifying in its severity. Collins’s preference hints that this song carries a particular emotional weather for her - something elemental, not just craft. When artists point to a favorite, they’re often pointing past chart success and toward the track that still feels uncannily alive, the one that resists becoming museum-piece nostalgia.

There’s also a subtle rebuke to the public’s idea of authorship. Collins has been celebrated both as a distinctive interpreter and as a songwriter; saying she likes a specific song “of all the songs I have written” insists on her identity as the author, the origin point. The line invites listeners to re-hear her catalog through her own internal ranking - not the radio’s, not the critics’ - and to recognize that the deepest measure of a song may be the one only its maker can feel.