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I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
Emmylou Harris
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Emmylou Harris
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Country Singer
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Birmingham
Alabama
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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.
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It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.
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Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.
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As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.
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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.
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Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.
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I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.
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The best way to catch a horse is to build a fence around it.
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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.
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When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
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It's just a sound, and a feeling that's in the music. And you either hear it and appreciate it, or you don't.
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Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I love my country the way I love a friend or a child who I would correct if she was going the wrong way. Who I expect the very best from.
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It's basically a city of songwriters and that's what gives it it's strength, that's what gives it its lasting ability. You've got people making all different kinds of music and that's what attracts me to Nashville as Music City.
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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.
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To me acting and singing are worlds apart.
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Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run .
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The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.
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I think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder.
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Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.
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