Pj Harvey Quotes

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree. ~ PJ Harvey

But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there. ~ PJ Harvey

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

I see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul. ~ PJ Harvey

My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store. ~ PJ Harvey

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes. ~ PJ Harvey

Shame is the shadow of love. ~ PJ Harvey

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things. ~ PJ Harvey

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me. ~ PJ Harvey

If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener. ~ PJ Harvey

I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill. ~ Imelda May

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

I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes. ~ PJ Harvey

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time. ~ PJ Harvey

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible. ~ PJ Harvey

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

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way. ~ PJ Harvey

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

Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter ... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country. ~ PJ Harvey

Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person. ~ PJ Harvey

You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody. ~ PJ Harvey

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life. ~ PJ Harvey

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you. ~ PJ Harvey

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track. ~ PJ Harvey

I would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp. ~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different. ~ PJ Harvey

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor. ~ PJ Harvey

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything. ~ PJ Harvey

Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open. ~ PJ Harvey

I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs. ~ Valerie June

I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can. ~ PJ Harvey

I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a wonderful sensation to not have any clothes on. ~ PJ Harvey

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

I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that. ~ PJ Harvey

When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song. ~ PJ Harvey

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter. ~ PJ Harvey

I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree. ~ PJ Harvey

You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together. ~ PJ Harvey

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book. ~ PJ Harvey

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you. ~ PJ Harvey

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you. ~ PJ Harvey

I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can. ~ PJ Harvey

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there. ~ Evan Rachel Wood

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me. ~ PJ Harvey

I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion. ~ PJ Harvey

I'm always trying to swim to new ground. ~ PJ Harvey

Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel. ~ PJ Harvey

I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well. ~ PJ Harvey

Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply. ~ PJ Harvey

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people. ~ PJ Harvey

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong. ~ PJ Harvey

Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter. ~ PJ Harvey

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation. ~ Paul Harvey

I had a trial run with Norman Ross for 21 years, from '61 to '82. I didn't have it in mind to open a chain like Harvey Norman. I opened one shop, but then the next thing you know, I've got another shop and then another shop. ~ Gerry Harvey

If Solange was't trying to get herself killed, Lucy was.
I was beginning to think that all of my training wasn't actually about killing vampires anymore, it was about saving my girlfriend and her best friend from themselves. And it was a full-time job. ~ Alyxandra Harvey

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely ... Warhol. ~ Harvey Fierstein

IF LIFE GIVES YOU GLUE... USE A STEPLER ~ Julia Harvey

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things. ~ Harvey Fierstein

If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours. ~ Dustin Lance Black

... our 'Physick' and 'Anatomy' have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not unsuccessfully, with such complex problems, that the eyes of Vesalius and of Harvey might be dazzled by the sight of the tree that has grown out of their grain of mustard seed. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley

HOW TO BE A GIRL ON A DATE ~ Steve Harvey

I think audiences can deal with these mature themes. ~ Harvey Weinstein

Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith. ~ Moses Harvey

Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges. ~ Harvey MacKay

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous. ~ Harvey Cox

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. ~ Harvey Milk

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter. ~ Doug Harvey

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run. ~ David Harvey

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. ~ P.J. Harvey

I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue. ~ Harvey Weinstein

Okay, listen up, people," Kieran raised his voice so that it was all gravelly and impressive. I wasn't particularly impressed since we'd grown up together and I'd force-fed him mud pies when we were little, but it seemed to work on everyone else. Lia actually sighed.
Only a thirteen-year-old vampire hunter would get a crush in the middle of a vampire attack.
I was a little bit proud of her actually.
His grin widened and he nudged my shoulder companionably. "I like you, kid." (Quinn)
I tried not to groan out loud. I was as bad as Lia.
I had totally developed a crush during a vampire raid. ~ Alyxandra Harvey

I'm hoping that "South Of Wilshire" will help people to realize that these are places that they should patronize, not avoid. ~ Harvey Levin

I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey. ~ Daniel Day-Lewis

Oh you'd better believe it, baby! I'd ride you till you passed out from exhaustion, feed you a bacon sandwich, hose you down and start again. ~ Jane Harvey-Berrick

Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all. ~ Harvey Keitel

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be. ~ Will Harvey

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream. ~ Harvey MacKay

She had said one time, make a choice and do it like Hercules. So if that is all of what is being offered, the idea is to always do it like Hercules and I always followed her advise and now I'm here talking to you. ~ Harvey Keitel

For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live ~ Jane Harvey-Berrick

Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, I'm here, pay attention to me ~ Harvey Milk

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality. ~ Harvey Cox

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle. ~ Harvey Keitel

God, Caro. You make it all worthwhile," he said, kissing my hair. "Thank God for you. ~ Jane Harvey-Berrick

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation. ~ Harvey Keitel

Mother was delicate the way badgers were delicate. ~ Alyxandra Harvey

Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along. ~ Tim Conway

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman. ~ Harvey Keitel

Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence. ~ Harvey Penick

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice. ~ Harvey Fierstein

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group. ~ John Harvey-Jones

I don't have to agree with everything a candidate does to support him. ~ Harvey Weinstein

If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations? ~ Harvey Jackins

One could understand feminism generally as an attack on woman as she was under "patriarchy" (that concept is a social construction of feminism). The feminine mystique was her ideal; in regard to sex, it consisted of women's modesty and in the double standard of sexual conduct that comes with it, which treated women's misbehavior as more serious than men's. Instead of trying to establish a single standard by bringing men up to the higher standard of women, as with earlier feminism, today's feminism decided to demand that women be entitled to sink to the level of men. It bought into the sexual revolution of the late sixties and required that women be rewarded with the privileges of male conquest rather than, say, continue serving as camp followers of rock bands. The result has been the turn for the worse. ... What was there in feminine modesty that the feminists left behind?

In return for women's holding to a higher standard of sexual behavior, feminine modesty gave them protection while they considered whether they wanted to consent. It gave them time: Not so fast! Not the first date! I'm not ready for that! It gave them the pleasure of being courted along with the advantage of looking before you leap. To win over a woman, men had to strive to express their finer feelings, if they had any. Women could judge their character and choose accordingly. In sum, women had the right of choice, if I may borrow that slogan. All this and more was social construction, to be sure ~ Harvey Mansfield

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food. ~ John Harvey Kellogg

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't. ~ Harvey Fierstein

In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund ~ David Alan Harvey

What you want most out of life is the thing you have to give the most of ~ Steve Harvey

I love you, Torrey Delaney. You don't have to say it back to me, but I love you. I didn't believe life was worth living until I met you. I'm so, so happy I was wrong. ~ Jane Harvey-Berrick

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective. ~ Harvey MacKay