102 Quotes by Emmylou Harris

You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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