Yes, I always say that we’re a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone. Emmylou Harris Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons – I don’t want to be part of somebody else’s. Emmylou Harris Read Quote
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 Read Quote
You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way. Emmylou Harris Read Quote
I’m not a trained musician. When folks talk about ‘Well, you go to this or that’ – the tenor, or the third part – I don’t really know what they’re talking about. Emmylou Harris Read Quote
