PJ Harvey Quotes - Page 6

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• Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

  PJ Harvey

  Visceral, Very Deep, Feels

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• I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

  PJ Harvey

  People, Silence, Tough

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I like to be around things that I find inspiring.

  PJ Harvey

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

  PJ Harvey

  Want, Way, Emotion

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• I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Past, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What Rare [albom] allows me to do is gonna show people other things that I'm capable of 'cause they really haven't heard a lot of things outside of the rap stuff that I do.

  PJ Harvey

  Rap, People, Stuff

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• I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

  PJ Harvey

  Causes, Chips, Shoulders

  "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 was really influenced by a lot of Disney soundtracks, because that's what I used to watch all the time, and they always put music in it, which is why I tend to have popular melodies over harder beats.

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  Watches, Soundtracks, Used

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• I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

  PJ Harvey

  Film, Poet, Makers

  "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.

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• 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.

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• Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

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  Mean, Drawing, Effort

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

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Writing, Track

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• When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.

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  Idols, Wonderful, Young

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• And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.

  PJ Harvey

  Art, Mysterious Things, People

  "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.

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• There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

  PJ Harvey

  Exercise, Singing, Boring

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• I was like just writing and writing and then I kinda developed my sound. And then, my managers were like, "Okay, we're gonna try to get a deal." And then first it was Interscope, and then it was Atlantic. And then, I ended up signing with Atlantic, but it was like a long process, a really long... it was A LONG PROCESS. I feel like it took me two years to do it.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, Years, Two

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

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• Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

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  Lucky, Way, Obstacles

  "Shy girl or she-wolf? Will the real Polly Harvey please stand up". Interview With Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2009.

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• 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

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• [Writing] has helped me meet people.

  PJ Harvey

  Writing, People

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• At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

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  Writing, Needs, Able

  "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] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.

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  Writing, Artist, Trying

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• I was working with D'Mile - he's amazing! And I don't know, it was like that guitar riff was so crazy to me, and so I think I was frustrated about something that happened earlier and I feel like I'm just a good guy, I don't cut people off, I don't really call people out when they do stuff that they should be called out on, and I'm just always the one being the bigger person. So, that day "Gangster" just came out. That's just how I feel in that day to day life.

  PJ Harvey

  Crazy, Cutting, Thinking

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

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• 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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  Song, Together, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

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• There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

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  Hard Work, Discipline, Get Better

  Source: www.avclub.com

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