You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music,… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
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. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me,… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
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… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
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… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
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… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company -… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part -… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
You really do learn every day with every dog; they are all so unique and different. But if you're patient and you understand where… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
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… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
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