Emmylou Harris quotes

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.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Attitude #Grief #Healing

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

#Dog #People #Good Times

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
-- Emmylou Harris

#Sea #Light #Sailor

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

#Country #Growing Up #Heart

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

#Thinking #Soul #Chicago

Yes, I always say that were a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Mean #Play #League

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

#Dog #Rewards #Priceless

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.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Color #Way #Ends

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.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Thinking #Age #Busy

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.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Children #Hair #People

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.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Country #Children #Patriotic

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

#Lying #Silence #Fields

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Doe #Mediocrity #World

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

#Want #Biographies

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.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Sadness #Thoughtful #Thinking

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

#Alcohol #Drug #Feelings

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
-- Emmylou Harris

#Stars #Pain #Loneliness

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

#Music #Soul #World

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Singing #Acting #World

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.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Grieving #Color #People

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.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Country #Names #Musical

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 .
-- Emmylou Harris

#Running #Being The Best #Born To Run

I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very traditional format of country music, and he came up with something completely different
-- Emmylou Harris

#Music #Country #Writing

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.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Nashville #Cities #People

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.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Blessed #Able #Granted

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.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Expectations #Grace #Life Is

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.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Country #Roots #Worry