Song Quotes by Emmylou Harris

11 Song quotes by Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris’s brief remarks on songs reveal her reverence for storytelling through melody, offering a taste of her seasoned perspective.

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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.

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I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary.…

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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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I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some…

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A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

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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.

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Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

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I find with records, they become what they're going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own.…

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Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to…

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The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go…

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I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has…

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She knew someone but now he's gone.

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I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company -…

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I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part -…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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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…

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She takes her time.

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Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

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Most Novembers I break down and cry.

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