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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
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Polly Jean Harvey
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I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, Oh, okay, you should be an artist, you know 'cause it wasn't until I stopped looking for approval that I could actually do it.
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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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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.
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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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I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.
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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.
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We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.
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I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.
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To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.
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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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The devil wanders into my soul.
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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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I like to be around things that I find inspiring.
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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.
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