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I think I've been interested in music since I was little.

PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 9
Composer
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Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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Polly Jean Harvey
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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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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 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'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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In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.
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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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The first song I heard from me was Meek Mill [I Don't Know], it was his first single before he went (to jail). I remember the first time I heard it was like eleven thirty at night, and I was like, Yo, this is crazy! And, I was smiling from ear to ear.
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I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.
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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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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
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I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.
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It [ Not For Long] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.
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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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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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I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.
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