P. J. Harvey Quotes

• People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

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• There would be more women in the rock scene if they were any good. But there are so few who are.

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• In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set. I didn’t want the set to be boring. So I’d moved some older songs onto the autoharp, and they worked really well.

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• I’d want to read the stories that I’d written, I’d want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I’d want to show that work in some way.

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  Topics in Art, Work

• I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It’s to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It’s also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

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  Topics in Life, Love

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• I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and… I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.

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  Tags in Artist, Artistic, Poetry

• I work on words quite separately to music. They’re both ongoing, and I don’t ever feel like I’m working in a cycle in that respect, because it’s every day anyway, no matter what I’m doing. Then I get to a point when I’ve collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

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  Tags in Music, Like, Word

• It’s so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It’s just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don’t particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.

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• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I’m always painting and drawing as well, and it’s an ongoing creative assignment.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in World, Word, Song

• I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Music

• I don’t think that much anymore in terms of ‘write a record, record a record, tour a record,’ because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I’m just an ongoing artist. I’m not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I’m being led.

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  Tags in Time, Record, Follow

• My mom is a sculptress.

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• I’m not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don’t. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I’m concerned with.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Writers And Writing

• People like Howlin’ Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart – all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there’s a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

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  Topics in Country, Life

• Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

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•  There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

   

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• There’s so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they’re sung.

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  Tags in Music

• My mother and father are very involved with music. It’s completely part of their soul.

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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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