Emily Saliers Quotes & Sayings

I try not to get personally involved in social media. It kind of makes me sick sometimes. — Emily Saliers

Food! Oh my god, I love food. Sugar makes me come alive. — Emily Saliers

Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable. — Emily Saliers

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there. — Emily Saliers

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine. — Emily Saliers

I have faith that my life is in good hands. I honestly try to see how I can grow from uncomfortable circumstances. — Emily Saliers

We must love while these moments are still called today. — Emily Saliers

The prize is always worth the rocky ride. — Emily Saliers

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing. — Emily Saliers

I love Decatur. It is diverse, politically progressive, family oriented and I can walk everywhere. — Emily Saliers

I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know that it hurts like hell, and then you get a little bit of a respite, and then it comes back, and it hurts like hell. I know it can be survived. — Emily Saliers

Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights. — Emily Saliers

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded. — Emily Saliers

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition. — Emily Saliers

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears. — Emily Saliers

The sweetest part is acting after making a decision. — Emily Saliers

Always tell the truth and be true. — Emily Saliers

When I'm home, I cook. I love cooking for people. — Emily Saliers

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies. — Emily Saliers

Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life. — Emily Saliers

So what is love then is it dictated or chosen (handed down and made by hand)
Does it sing like the hymns of a thousand years
Or is it just pop emotion (handed down and made by hand)
And if it ever was there and it left
Does it mean it was never true
And to exist it must elude
Is that why I think these things of you? — Emily Saliers

The most important thing to do for me physiologically is to sleep when I'm tired. I love to sleep and it's very restorative. — Emily Saliers

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't. — Emily Saliers

And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path. — Emily Saliers

Cooking is really calming. Sharing food with friends, cooking. — Emily Saliers

I was never forced to go to church, and there is a lot of beauty in Christianity that I take in my life as a gift, and there is a lot of beauty in other religions. I'm kind of a spiritual mutt. — Emily Saliers

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. — Emily Saliers

No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand. — Emily Saliers

We're bombarded with media reports, with social media, with anyone with an opinion. — Emily Saliers

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free. — Emily Saliers

The truth that people are missing about certain things, you know when they get fearful and they get hateful, and they repress other peoples, is the greatest truth of all, you know, the truth of love and understanding and clarity about all those issues. And it's like, one day, one day, everybody's gonna know, myself included, over certain things. But, so it's like, it's alright, you know, you hate me now, but that's cool, because I see a better day and I know that there's a higher truth, and you're wrong about hating me because I'm gay. — Emily Saliers

Whenever anybody gets involved in politics, its always exciting for me because we take for granted our freedoms and our abilities to effect change through political activism. — Emily Saliers

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do. — Emily Saliers

Now I know why yoga is so life-giving for so many. I have never experienced a practice that combines such physical challenge and spiritual wellbeing in my life. — Emily Saliers

Oh, how I wish I were a trinity, so if I lost a part of me, I'd still have two of the same to live. — Emily Saliers

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances. — Emily Saliers

I cry when I feel like crying. — Emily Saliers

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart. — Emily Saliers

Whenever I think about all the things I appreciate in life, I also think about my privileges, as well. Try to keep that all in balance. Gratitude for what I have, trying to be part of movements that make it easy for people who have it harder than they ever should have it. — Emily Saliers

Love is pure and kind and forgiving. It is the greatest gift of all. — Emily Saliers

I'm made mute by the virtue of decision
And I choose most of your life goes on without me
Oh the fear I've known
That I might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my own
All I've sown was a song
But maybe I was wrong — Emily Saliers

So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us. — Emily Saliers

But the question drowns in it's futility
And even I have got to laugh at me — Emily Saliers

I could go crazy on a night like tonight
When summer's beginning to give up her fight
And every thought's a possiblility
And the voices are heard but nothing is seen
Why do you spend this time with me
Maybe an equal mystery — Emily Saliers

Science and violence turned silence to rage. — Emily Saliers

Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose. — Emily Saliers

You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song. — Emily Saliers

What was once your pain, will be your home. — Emily Saliers

Eating wholesome foods and getting plenty of sleep is crucial for me. — Emily Saliers

Don't do to someone else what you wouldn't want done to you. — Emily Saliers

It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before. — Emily Saliers

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive. — Emily Saliers

Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me. — Emily Saliers

I pray as part of my mindfulness practice and try to recount my day, all my triumphs and foibles, before I go to sleep at night. These practices keep me calm for the most part. — Emily Saliers