PJ Harvey Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By PJ Harvey
I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you. — PJ Harvey
Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter. — PJ Harvey
I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way. — PJ Harvey
First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too. — PJ Harvey
Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter ... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country. — PJ Harvey
I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can. — PJ Harvey
It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know. — PJ Harvey
I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can. — PJ Harvey
What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything. — PJ Harvey
I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people. — PJ Harvey
I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree. — PJ Harvey
Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply. — PJ Harvey
Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great! — PJ Harvey
Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things. — PJ Harvey
I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me. — PJ Harvey
If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect. — PJ Harvey
Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time. — PJ Harvey
I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do. — PJ Harvey
If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener. — PJ Harvey
I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you. — PJ Harvey
And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words. — PJ Harvey
I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it. — PJ Harvey
You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different. — PJ Harvey
I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day. — PJ Harvey
But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there. — PJ Harvey
I'm always trying to swim to new ground. — PJ Harvey
I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened. — PJ Harvey
The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me. — PJ Harvey
I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews. — PJ Harvey
To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else. — PJ Harvey
I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that. — PJ Harvey
There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that. — PJ Harvey
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book. — PJ Harvey
In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life. — PJ Harvey
Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture. — PJ Harvey
You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody. — PJ Harvey
I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals. — PJ Harvey
I see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul. — PJ Harvey
I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion. — PJ Harvey
I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a wonderful sensation to not have any clothes on. — PJ Harvey
I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can. — PJ Harvey
People want to build musicians into mythical beings. — PJ Harvey
I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter. — PJ Harvey
We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes. — PJ Harvey
Shame is the shadow of love. — PJ Harvey
Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel. — PJ Harvey
The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do. — PJ Harvey
I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor. — PJ Harvey
Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life. — PJ Harvey
I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician. — PJ Harvey
I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer. — PJ Harvey
I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you. — PJ Harvey
Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open. — PJ Harvey
When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them. — PJ Harvey
When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track. — PJ Harvey
Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love. — PJ Harvey
But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway. — PJ Harvey
I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible. — PJ Harvey
I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well. — PJ Harvey
You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together. — PJ Harvey
I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong. — PJ Harvey
Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in. — PJ Harvey
My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store. — PJ Harvey
When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song. — PJ Harvey