Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote. Emmylou Harris More Quotes by Emmylou Harris More Quotes From Emmylou Harris 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. Emmylou Harris griefattitudedeath Normal is a cycle on a washing machine. Emmylou Harris cyclesmachinesnormal You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country. Emmylou Harris growing-upheartcountry When there are dogs and music, people have a good time. Emmylou Harris good-timesdogpeople 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 the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from. Emmylou Harris patrioticcountrychildren Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does. Emmylou Harris mediocritydoeworld 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 writingsongcountry Simplicity can intensify the emotion. Emmylou Harris simplicityemotion If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so! Emmylou Harris crazyifs 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 appreciatefeelingscountry 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 singingheartbeautiful I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble. Emmylou Harris drugalcoholfeelings 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. Emmylou Harris grantedableblessed Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run . Emmylou Harris born-to-runbeing-the-bestrunning The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it. Emmylou Harris horsefenceway 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. Emmylou Harris helllittlescountry 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 colorgrievingpeople So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Galilee Emmylou Harris glimpselightsea I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan. Emmylou Harris chicagosoulthinking 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 agebusythinking
