PJ Harvey Quotes

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• I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.

  PJ Harvey

  Beautiful, Song, People

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

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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.

  PJ Harvey

  Bed, Way, Type

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

  PJ Harvey

  Music, Thinking, Politician

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• Never settle for anything less than you want.

  PJ Harvey

  Never Settle, Want, Settling

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Creating

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Shame is the shadow of love.

  PJ Harvey

  Shadow, Shadow Of Love, Shame

  Song: Shame, Album: Uh Huh Her, 2004

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• You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

  PJ Harvey

  Mean, Two, People

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• 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

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

  PJ Harvey

  Always Trying, Swim, Trying

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

  PJ Harvey

  Mistake, Way, Findings

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• If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.

  PJ Harvey

  Fall, Hard Work, Writing

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• 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

  Eye, Media, Accepting

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• I see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul.

  PJ Harvey

  Sex, Men, Soul

  Song: Angelene

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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.

  PJ Harvey

  Giving, Persons, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.

  PJ Harvey

  Who I Am, Opposites, Ideas

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

  PJ Harvey

  Role Models, Progress, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person.

  PJ Harvey

  Self, Self Deprecating, Wells

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• It's good to feel excited by the environment you're in.

  PJ Harvey

  Environment, Excited, Feels

  Source: www.wfuv.org

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• 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

  Thinking, Views, Sides

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• I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.

  PJ Harvey

  Everyday, Sometimes, Everyday Life

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

  PJ Harvey

  Unique, Stories, Way

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• I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

  PJ Harvey

  Theatre, Trying, Needs

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• 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

  Thinking, Trying, Want

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• 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.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Together, Ongoing

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

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• I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.

  PJ Harvey

  Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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