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.
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. - Emmylou Harris
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.
- Emmylou Harris
A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition. - Emmylou Harris
A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.
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. - Emmylou Harris
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.
Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does. - Emmylou Harris
Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.
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
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.
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 t… - Emmylou Harris
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 t…
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 th… - Emmylou Harris
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 th…
It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say. - Emmylou Harris
It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.
You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country. - Emmylou Harris
You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.
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