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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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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Saxophonist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Corscombe
Dorset
Polly Jean Harvey
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Life
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People
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I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.
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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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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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Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.
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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'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.
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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.
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People want to build musicians into mythical beings.
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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.
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If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.
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Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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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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If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.
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I'm always trying to swim to new ground.
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I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.
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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.
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Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!
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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.
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