Emmylou Harris Quotes About Country

• 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.

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• You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.

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• 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.

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  Interview with Stacey D'Erasmo, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 10, 2014.

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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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• 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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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