Love Quote by Judy Collins

Collins is quietly taking a crowbar to a culture that mistakes measurable for meaningful. By lining up "music or feelings or love" in one breath, she collapses the false hierarchy between art and emotion: all three are real in the only way that ultimately matters, through impact. The rhetoric is plainspoken, almost disarmingly so, which is part of the move. She doesn’t romanticize the intangible; she normalizes it. The repetition of "not material" works like a drumbeat, insisting that what can’t be held is still what holds us.

The subtext is an artist’s defense of her own medium without turning it into a manifesto. Music is the leading example, but it’s smuggled in alongside feelings and love so it can’t be dismissed as mere taste. If you grant that love is "vitally important", you’ve already conceded her argument about art. That’s persuasion by emotional triangulation, not theory.

Context matters: Collins comes out of the 1960s folk ecosystem where songs weren’t just entertainment; they were social glue, protest language, survival tool. In an era (and industry) that constantly translates art into units - sales, streams, charts, branding - her point lands as a rebuke. She’s also signaling something personal: you don’t build a life in music if you believe value has to be tangible. The quote is less a metaphysical claim than a cultural correction: the invisible isn’t airy; it’s the infrastructure.