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
I think the frightening thing is when we lose our civility, which I think is happening across the board, and I find disturbing.
– Emmylou Harris
Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.
– Emmylou Harris
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.
– Emmylou Harris
My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.
– Emmylou Harris
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
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.