P. J. Harvey Quotes

• With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It’s almost like watching a scene from a film, and that’s what I go about trying to catch in a song.

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• There’s also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I’m doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

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• My mother and father are very involved with music. It’s completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.

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• My father is actually a quarry man – he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

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• I think that’s always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

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• I think I’m a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I’m not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

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• I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I’ve been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.

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• I didn’t know folk music growing up, no. It’s something I’ve come to study, really, because I think there’s so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

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• I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it’s about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that’s frightening because I haven’t been there before.

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• As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

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• Well, I don’t really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

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• Maybe I’m just purely lucky. If I’ve come up against obstacles I’ve always found another way around it.

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• I’m probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

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• I’m not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

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• I’m a very private person, so obviously I don’t enjoy talking about more personal matters.

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• I’m a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.

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• I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it’s very physical.

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• I don’t loathe interviews, I’m just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

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• I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I’m myself, and if I don’t, then I give nothing.

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• I’ve always felt that I’m affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.

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P. J. Harvey (38)

Birth:	9th October, 1969
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Artist, Composer, Lyricist, Musician, Singer

About

Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, composer and occasional artist. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, harmonica, and most recently, the autoharp. Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automatic Dlamini as a vocalist, guitarist, and saxophone player. The band's frontman, John Parish, would become her long-term collaborator.

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