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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.
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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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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Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.
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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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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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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.
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A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.
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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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