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Emmylou Harris Biography

Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She has released many popular albums and singles over the course of her career, and she has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2018 she was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

Doe, Gonna, Kill, Mediocrity, World

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.

Ahead, Being The Best, Born To Run, Free, Run, Running

As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.

Business, Dog, Knows, Priceless, Rewards

Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.

Able, Song, Start, Wonder, Writing

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

Encourage, People, Register, Say, Vote

I get a lot of sleep on the bus. I bring two dogs with me, who keep me grounded. I guess that's just in my soul. It's good to know that you're good at something.

Bring, Dog, Good, Guess, Sleep, Two

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.

Country, Roots, True, Worry

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.

Child, Children, Enquirer, Grow, Hair, People

So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Galilee

Eternity, Glimpse, Light, Sailors, Sea

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

Certain, Expectations, Expected, Grace, Life Is, Things

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.

Country, Cultures, Incredibly, Landscapes, Musical, Names

I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.

Able, Blessed, Good, Granted, Work

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.

Country, Enough, Reason, Song, Torture, Writing

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.

Children, Country, Patriotic, Patriotism, Wrong

I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very traditional format of country music, and he came up with something completely different

Completely, Country, Music, Personal, Poetry, Writing

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Acting, Apart, Singing, World

I think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder.

Although, Listen, Thinking, Unique, Voice

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.

Civility, People, Sadness, See, Thinking, Thoughtful

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.

Attitude, Death, Grief, Healing, Ones

I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale. " Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.

Country, Hell, Littles, Music, Used

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