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" 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. "

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" 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

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

" I was a folk singer who became totally over the edge with country music. I found my voice and style working with Gram Parsons. I learned how to listen to George Jones records and the Louvin Brothers. "

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

" I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band. "

" I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. "

" 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. "

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

Emmylou Harris

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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 - Nonesuch understands what I'm about. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Well, I've always been eclectic. "

" 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. "

" My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child. "

Emmylou Harris

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" 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. "

" Every life is precious. "

" 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. "

" 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 they're coming from, and if you are consistent, they will be fine. They teach you to give your full attention. "

" I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan. "

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

" 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 like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material. "

Emmylou Harris

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" 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. "

" Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears. "

" 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. "

" To me acting and singing are worlds apart. "

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

" I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature. "

" I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it. "

" 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? "