- Art College
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
P J Harvey Quotes
Most Famous P J Harvey Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best p-j-harvey quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 P J Harvey Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Discipline
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
- Fine
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Different Countries
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
- Family
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
- Another Way
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
- Mind
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Guitar
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm a songwriter. 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.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
- Good Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is a sculptress.
- Progress
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
- Poetry
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
- Feel
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Follow
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.
- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
- Make
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Eyes
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
- I Can
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
- Myself
- |
- Nov 07, 2020