Emmylou Harris Quotes

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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'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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.