Quotes by Emmylou Harris

About Emmylou Harris:

Emmylou Harris is an American singer and songwriter. She has released many popular albums and singles over the course of her career, and as of 2015 she has won 13 Grammys as well as numerous other awards.
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To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Emmylou Harris

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.

Emmylou Harris

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.

Emmylou Harris

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.

Emmylou Harris

Well, I've always been eclectic.

Emmylou Harris

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.

Emmylou Harris

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.

Emmylou Harris

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.

Emmylou Harris

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

Emmylou Harris

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

Emmylou Harris

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.

Emmylou Harris

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.

Emmylou Harris

You know, I'm a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is 'The Ugly One With the Jewels,' a spoken-word record. It's an extraordinary album.

Emmylou Harris

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

Emmylou Harris

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

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.

Emmylou Harris

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.

Emmylou Harris

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.

Emmylou Harris

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.

Emmylou Harris

Author Bio

  • NameEmmylou Harris
  • DescriptionAmerican musician
  • BornApril 2, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Singer-songwriter; Guitarist