PJ Harvey Quotes - Page 5

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• 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

  Heart, Soul, Records

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Country, Singing, Singers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Careers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Song, Taken, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I would like people to know that it exists. So I appreciate that there's a meeting point, where I would like people to know about the work that I'm doing, and that requires me to talk about it.

  PJ Harvey

  Talking, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

  Writing, Issues, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Writing, Ideas, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.

  PJ Harvey

  Sex, Men, Sin

  Song: Angelene

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• 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

  Writing, People, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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.

  PJ Harvey

  Art, School, Degrees

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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.

  PJ Harvey

  Blessed, Inspiration, Trying

  Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. February 15, 2011.

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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.

  PJ Harvey

  Art, Drawing, Stories

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• I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

  PJ Harvey

  Animal, Stones, Littles

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• 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

  Running, Song, Eye

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• 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.

  PJ Harvey

  Play, Giving, Energy

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

  PJ Harvey

  Art, Degrees, Levels

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• I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

  PJ Harvey

  Attention, Pay, Too Much

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• First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

  PJ Harvey

  Taken, Thinking, America

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

  PJ Harvey

  Different, Body, Photograph

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• In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Pieces, Way

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

  PJ Harvey

  Country, Glasses, People

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• Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel.

  PJ Harvey

  Real, Records, Want

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I've always been very interested in the visual aspect of what I do.

  PJ Harvey

  Aspect, Visuals

  Source: www.wfuv.org

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• 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.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Player, Piano

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2007.

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