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P. J. Harvey Quotes

British - Musician | October 9, 1969 -

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.

Music Art Job School College Saying

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

I Am More Than Poets Painters Much

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.

Song Action Trying Go Watching See

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

Feel Always Things Been I Feel Very

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.

Work Hard Work Discipline Better Get

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.

Communication Music Growing Up Think

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.

School Go Degree Arts Fine Deal

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

I Am Emotion Human Who Writer Deals

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.

Family Father Business Man Sheep He

I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.

Talking Enjoy Person Personal More

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.

Work Mind Think Information Human

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.

Music Myself Feel Exploration Place

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