Emmylou Harris Quotes

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

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

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run .

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.

So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Galilee

Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

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

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

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.

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

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it.

I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.

I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?' I'm this age. I am in this moment and in this life.

A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

I think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder.

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.

It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.

I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I’m not much of a wild child.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

I'm not going out there and doing the same material every night. I have this amazing audience of fans who have been listening to me, some of them since 1975.

I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.