Emmylou Harris Quotes
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I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.
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Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.
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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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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.
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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.
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I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.
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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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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.
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If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!
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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 have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.
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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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I'm so grateful that I'm able to do something about this passion that I have for shelter animals. In a strange way, it completes me. It means so much to me and makes me feel like I'm truly making a difference.
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When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
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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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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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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.
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Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.
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It's basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its lasting ability. You've got people making all different kinds of music and that's what attracts me to Nashville as Music City.
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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 think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder.
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The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.
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I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.
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A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.
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Simplicity can intensify the emotion.
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I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.
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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.
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It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.
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Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.
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Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.
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