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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. "

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" The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child. "

Emmylou Harris

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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 more grooves in it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I find with records, they become what they're going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own. Part of making records is to honor that and not try to force it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Well, I'm just very blessed that I still love my work and I can still work, I still have an audience and I love what I do. "

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

" 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. "

" To me acting and singing are worlds apart. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every life is precious. "

" Well, I've always been eclectic. "