PJ Harvey Quotes - Page 5

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

  PJ Harvey

  Art, Degrees, Levels

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

  PJ Harvey

  Animal, Stones, Littles

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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 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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• I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.

  PJ Harvey

  Trying, Enormous, Interest

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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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• 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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• I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, "Oh, okay, you should be an artist," you know 'cause it wasn't until I stopped looking for approval that I could actually do it.

  PJ Harvey

  Artist, Thinking, Waiting

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

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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.

  PJ Harvey

  Art, School, Challenges

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

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• The devil wanders into my soul.

  PJ Harvey

  Soul, Devil, Wander

  Song: The Devil, Album: White Chalk, 2007

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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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• 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

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• I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

  PJ Harvey

  Thinking, Soul, Way

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

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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've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.

  PJ Harvey

  Thinking, Class, Musician

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

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• I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

  PJ Harvey

  Thinking, Sense Of Humor, Good Sense Of Humor

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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.

  PJ Harvey

  Father, Men, Sheep

  "PJ Harvey’s British Invasion". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. February 11, 2011.

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• I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.

  PJ Harvey

  Real

  Source: pitchfork.com

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