PJ Harvey Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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.

• 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

  Song, Thinking, Film

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

• 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

• I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Character, Way

  Source: www.wfuv.org

• 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.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Trying, Action

  "Interview PJ Harvey: 'I feel things deeply. I get angry, I shout at the TV, I feel sick'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

  Country, Song, Children

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

• 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

• 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

  Song, Artist, People

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

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Writing, Years

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

• When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Writing, Track

• 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

  Song, Long Ago, People

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

• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Stories, Short Story

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after I found out about songwriting in college, I was like, "Okay, I want to do that."

  PJ Harvey

  Song, College, Singing

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

• 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, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Long, Radio

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

• 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.

• 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

  Song, Might, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill ["I Don't Know"], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, "Yo, this is crazy!" And, I was smiling from ear to ear.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Crazy, Night

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

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

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Interesting, Shapes

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

• 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

• I think I just speak on what the regular people are going through outside of love 'cause, of course, there's always gonna be a love song, but there's so many other parts of life... being lost, feeling your way around, what you gonna do next.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Thinking, People

  "Singer/Songwriter PJ Shares Her Soundtrack For The Come Up". Interview with Todd Davis, www.parlemag.com. September 9, 2016.

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