102 Quotes by Emmylou Harris

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.

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

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.

I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.

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.

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

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.