Emmylou Harris Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems formulaic.”

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

“To me acting and singing are worlds apart.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”