Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harrisis an American singer and songwriter. She has released many popular albums and singles over the course of her career, and – as of 2016 – she has won 13 Grammys as well as numerous other awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth2 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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When he was mixing it I'd get a couple songs every week and I was, like, waiting for the mail to come. It was so exciting.
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A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.
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Every song that I start to write, I wonder if I'll be able to write it.
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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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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.
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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.
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Well, I'm just very blessed that I still love my work and I can still work, I still have an audience and I love what I do.
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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.
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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.
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With the Constitution they set something in motion that is a pretty extraordinary document and a recipe for the way you would want people to live.
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I wanted to be a country artist because I wanted to carry on what Gram was doing, even though I didn't quite understand it because I had only worked with him a year. I just experimented and did what I felt was right.
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The crazy thing is that, if you add up the actual recording time, it was less than two weeks. But Mark was so busy that I got the tracks he mixed two at a time over a period of years. It was frustrating, because I had rough mixes of all these great songs, and he'd be like: 'Don't play them to a soul until they're finished!' I was a good girl scout, though.
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I'm even able to have kind of a little bit of a second career in dog rescue. Doesn't pay anything, but it's become a real passion for me.