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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.
~ Emmylou Harris
Back
Citizens
Civility
Each
Educated
Get
Grown
I See
I Think
Informed
More
Other
Our
People
Screaming
See
Think
Thoughtful
Trouble
Turn
Turn-On
TV
Well
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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
About
Adopted
Being
Country
Ever
I Can
Just
Never
Roots
Should
True
Want
Were
Whether
Worry
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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
About
Band
Beads
Gives
Like
Material
Older
Pearls
Really
Songs
Spin
String
Stuff
Think
Together
Ultimately
Works
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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
Country
Cultures
Got
Incredibly
Indian
Influenced
Landscapes
Look
Many
Much
Musical
Names
Place
Places
Sound
Spanish
Very
Way
Which
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Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.
~ Emmylou Harris
Encourage
Much
People
Politically
Pretty
Register
Say
Vote
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To me acting and singing are worlds apart.
~ Emmylou Harris
Acting
Apart
Me
Singing
Worlds
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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.
~ Emmylou Harris
Animals
Attitude
Better
Come
Deal
Death
Easy
Enables
Grab
Grief
Healing
Hold
Kind
Know
Life
Life And Death
Much
Other
Pass
Suffer
Than
Time
Us
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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.
~ Emmylou Harris
Anyone
Business
Goes
Knows
Me
Priceless
Rewards
Who
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Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
~ Emmylou Harris
Bluegrass
Disappears
Form
Musical
Once
Start
Strict
Very
You
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Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.
~ Emmylou Harris
Artist
Considered
Country
Current
Formula
Going
How
Locked
Me
Never
Path
Put
Sing
Taught
Want
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Every life is precious.
~ Emmylou Harris
Every
Life
Precious
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I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.
~ Emmylou Harris
Also
Any
Back
Band
Belly
Better
Felt
Fire
Go
Going
Had
Loss
Money
Sense
Tables
Terrible
Waiting
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I find with records, they become what they're going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own. Part of making records is to honor that and not try to force it.
~ Emmylou Harris
Become
Direction
Find
Force
Going
Honor
Making
Own
Part
Power
Records
Take
Try
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I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.
~ Emmylou Harris
About
Attention
Charge
Company
Enough
Enough People
Freedom
Great
Just
Paying
People
Record
Record Company
Understands
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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
Biography
Else
My Own
Own
Part
Somebody
Want
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I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.
~ Emmylou Harris
Around
Come
First
Guitar
House
Lyrics
Music
Secondary
Shower
Sing
Sitting
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I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.
~ Emmylou Harris
Ability
Any
Credit
Deal
Even
Everything
Feel
Gift
Given
Great
Great Deal
Huge
I Can
Identity
Imagine
Joy
Life
Look
Me
My Life
Presence
Purpose
Sense
Take
Voice
Without
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I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.
~ Emmylou Harris
Chicago
Cubs
Enough
Fan
Had
Had Enough
I Love
Love
Soul
Think
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I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some more grooves in it.
~ Emmylou Harris
Deeper
Got
Groove
Hands
I Think
Little
More
Now
Really
Right
Shaken
Some
Think
Voice
Where
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I think I can be pretty focused, but as I say, it was more wanting to be the good student, seeing myself as a good student, and also, my parents had expectations. They wouldn't have cared if I got a B or a C or even a D.
~ Emmylou Harris
Also
Cared
Even
Expectations
Focused
Good
Good Student
Got
Had
I Can
I Think
More
Myself
Parents
Pretty
Say
Seeing
Student
Think
Wanting
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