Pj Harvey Song 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

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

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

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow. — 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

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time. — 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'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

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

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

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 write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track. — PJ Harvey