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If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

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Emily Saliers
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: July 22
Banjoist
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New Haven
Connecticut
Emily Ann Saliers
Life
Stops
Inspiring
Stop
Write
Ever
Writing
Time

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I cry when I feel like crying.
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I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.
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What was once your pain, will be your home.
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I have faith that my life is in good hands. I honestly try to see how I can grow from uncomfortable circumstances.
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Always tell the truth and be true.
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You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.
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Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.
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It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.
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You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.
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Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.
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Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.
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Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all.
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The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.
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I pray as part of my mindfulness practice and try to recount my day, all my triumphs and foibles, before I go to sleep at night. These practices keep me calm for the most part.
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We're bombarded with media reports, with social media, with anyone with an opinion.
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I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.
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...science and violence turned silence to rage.
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The prize is always worth the rocky ride.
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I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.
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