Emmylou Harris Quotes


"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
(Related: Being, Country, Want, Worry)

"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."
- Emmylou Harris
(Related: Pearls, Songs)

"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
(Related: Country, Names, Sound)

"Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote."
- Emmylou Harris
(Related: People, Pretty, Vote)

"To me acting and singing are worlds apart."
- Emmylou Harris
(Related: Acting, Singing)