102 Quotes by Emmylou Harris

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.

I was feeling single, seeing double, wound up in a whole lotta trouble.

Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.

When you’re just singing a beautiful melody with a story that’s true to the heart, you don’t need a lot of embellishment.

I’m just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking ‘am I old?’ I’m this age. I am in this moment and in this life.

If I’m crazy, I’m blissfully so!

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 love singing. The joy of singing live – I don’t think I will ever stop that.

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