P. J. Harvey Quotes

P. J. Harvey

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 9, 1969

In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set.

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My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.

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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

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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.

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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

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

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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.

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I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

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There's also 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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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.

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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.

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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

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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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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

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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.

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