Emmylou Harris Quotes

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

All diseases run into one, old age.

We're not getting any younger.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.