P. J. Harvey
P. J. Harvey
Polly Jean Harvey, MBE, known as PJ Harvey, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth9 October 1969
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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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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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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.
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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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We have to do better than we have done, ... It's like a sales forecast, you have to do better than you have done in previous years. I think we have to focus on what you're trying to do here.
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We had them on the ropes a couple of times and he'd hit a 30-foot bank shot (just before the shot clock ran out).