Pj Harvey Best Quotes & Sayings

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'm finding my way, and I make mistakes. — 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

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 studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree. — 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

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'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day. — PJ Harvey

Shame is the shadow of love. — PJ Harvey

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor. — 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

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 see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul. — PJ Harvey

We also listen to PJ Harvey; a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car. — Brody Armstrong

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you. — PJ Harvey

But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there. — PJ Harvey

Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice; my favorite singer is Kate Bush and she's not a belter, or PJ Harvey ... I'm definitely more of an alternative girl. — Carmen Ejogo

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'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

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

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've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there. — Evan Rachel Wood

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture. — PJ Harvey

I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that. — PJ Harvey

I'm always trying to swim to new ground. — PJ Harvey