Emmylou Harris Quotes

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

I think that music is still a mystery to most people. It kind of goes through most people without a specific thought. They feel the music, which is what's supposed to happen. They're not supposed to be curious about who wrote the music; they're supposed to feel what the show is trying to get them to feel. So if I help get that feeling across, that's good enough for me.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

I think that the whole point of music is that there shouldn't be rules. There is no right or wrong. And the fact that I may not like that piece of music and you may... The validation is in the fact that somebody gets something from it.

Everyone hears a song a different way and hears timing a different way.

Everything has a feeling to it, even if it's not your type of music - it has a feeling for somebody in the world.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.

It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

The most important thing is that you like the music.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

I like any music I can feel.

I like music when it makes you feel.

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.