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Emmylou Harris Quotes
Emmylou Harris Quotes
Emmylou Harris
American
Musician
Born:
Apr 2
,
1947
Good
Life
Me
People
Think
You
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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.
Emmylou Harris
Life
Good
You
Good Things
Grace
Expectation
Embracing
Come
Accepting
Still
Been
Expected
Certain
Your
Things
Necessarily
You know, I'm a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is 'The Ugly One With the Jewels,' a spoken-word record. It's an extraordinary album.
Emmylou Harris
You
Ugly
Extraordinary
Favorite
Anderson
Record
Records
Know
Fan
Album
Jewels
If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!
Emmylou Harris
Crazy
Blissfully
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
Emmylou Harris
Somebody
Own
Else
My Own
Part
Want
Biography
Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.
Emmylou Harris
Vote
People
Say
Pretty
Encourage
Politically
Register
Much
To me acting and singing are worlds apart.
Emmylou Harris
Me
Singing
Worlds
Apart
Acting
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
Worry
About
Adopted
Never
True
Were
Just
Being
Want
Whether
Roots
Should
Ever
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
Incredibly
Musical
Way
Indian
Names
Look
Got
Sound
Cultures
Very
Influenced
Place
Which
Places
Spanish
Much
Landscapes
Many
Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.
Emmylou Harris
Me
Path
Country
Considered
Locked
Never
Put
Sing
How
Current
Artist
Going
Taught
Want
Formula
I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.
Emmylou Harris
You
Musician
Folks
About
Part
Tenor
Know
Talk
Well
Talking
Go
Trained
Really
Third
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
Life
You
Beginning
Way
Point
Colors
End
Than
Get
Closer
Where
Certain
Your
Certain Point
Every life is precious.
Emmylou Harris
Life
Every
Precious
Somehow, when you think about yourself in old age, you think you're going to be this completely different person that you don't even recognize - because you can't imagine it, you know?
Emmylou Harris
You
Age
Yourself
Old
Old Age
Think
Recognize
About
Somehow
Know
Because
Person
Going
Different
Different Person
Even
Imagine
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
Life
You
People
Complicated
Meet
Stay
More
Color
Lot
Than
Experiences
Grieving
Interesting
Much
Full
Widow
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.
Emmylou Harris
Music
Guitar
First
Secondary
Lyrics
Come
House
Sing
Around
Sitting
Shower
Well, I've always been eclectic.
Emmylou Harris
Eclectic
Well
Always
Been
I'm even able to have kind of a little bit of a second career in dog rescue. Doesn't pay anything, but it's become a real passion for me.
Emmylou Harris
Me
Dog
Passion
Become
Pay
Bit
Kind
Able
Real
Real Passion
Anything
Little
Little Bit
Rescue
Even
Second
Career
I think I can be pretty focused, but as I say, it was more wanting to be the good student, seeing myself as a good student, and also, my parents had expectations. They wouldn't have cared if I got a B or a C or even a D.
Emmylou Harris
Myself
Good
Parents
Think
Say
Focused
Seeing
Pretty
More
Good Student
Student
Had
Also
Got
Expectations
Wanting
Even
Cared
In 1974 I was trying to get my first little band together. That year marked kind of a traumatic point in my life, but I had a lot of support from friends and family and a lot of good things ended up coming out of it.
Emmylou Harris
Life
Good
Family
Together
Good Things
My Life
First
Year
Band
Marked
Out
Kind
Point
Had
Support
Coming
Lot
Up
Friends
Friends And Family
Get
Trying
Ended
Little
Traumatic
Things
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
Work
Love
Good
Take For Granted
Blessed
Able
Something
Take
Granted
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