Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harrisis an American singer and songwriter. She has released many popular albums and singles over the course of her career, and – as of 2016 – she has won 13 Grammys as well as numerous other awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth2 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
country song writing
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.
crazy ifs
If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!
song writing able
Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.
country children patriotic
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.
country growing-up heart
You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.
country littles hell
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.
dog people good-times
When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
normal machines washing
Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.
attitude grief healing
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.
audience love work
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.
american-musician constitution document motion people recipe
With the Constitution they set something in motion that is a pretty extraordinary document and a recipe for the way you would want people to live.
folks trained
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.