Emmylou Harris Quotes

• I love Chicago, but I didn’t think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

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• I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

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• I have my own biography of Gram Parsons – I don’t want to be part of somebody else’s.

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• Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.

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• As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.

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• Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it’s a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

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• When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.

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• I’m blessed to be able to work at something that I’m good at, and that I love. It’s not something I take for granted.

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• There’s a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been – but there’s still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

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• You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you – but I’m not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.

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• As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don’t get our civility back, we’re in trouble.

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• I don’t ever worry about whether I’m being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.

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• Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

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• To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

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• I’m very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we’ve got so many cultures, and the place names – the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.

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• I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

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Emmylou Harris (36)

Birth:	2nd April, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

About

Emmylou Harris was born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She is an American singer and songwriter. She has released many popular albums and singles over the course of her career, and as of 2015 she has won 12 Grammys as well as numerous other awards. She recorded her first album, Gliding Bird, in 1969. In Los Angeles with producer Brian Ahern, she recorded and released her solo major label debut, Pieces of the Sky, in 1975. She recorded her second album, the top-selling Elite Hotel in 1976. She released a duets album, Old Yellow Moon in 2013 which went on to win a 2014 Grammy for Best American album. She began focusing on pure country material, and Blue Kentucky Girl won a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. There were more C&W hits: "Two More Bottles of Wine", a cover of the Drifters' "Save The Last Dance For Me", and "Blue Kentucky Girl".

 

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