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PJ Harvey is a British musician known for her unique musical style and powerful emotional expression. Born on October 9, 1969, she has been active in the music industry since the early 1990s. Her music blends elements of rock, folk, and experimental music, earning her acclaim worldwide.

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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 a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I would like people to know that it exists. So I appreciate that there's a meeting point, where I would like people to know about the work that I'm doing, and that requires me to talk about it.”

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“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.”

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“I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.”

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“I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.”

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

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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 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.”

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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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“My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.”

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“People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.”

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“People want to build musicians into mythical beings.”

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

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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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“I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...”

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“I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...”

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“I was working with D'Mile - he's amazing! And I don't know, it was like that guitar riff was so crazy to me, and so I think I was frustrated about something that happened earlier and I feel like I'm just a good guy, I don't cut people off, I don't really call people out when they do stuff that they should be called out on, and I'm just always the one being the bigger person. So, that day "Gangster" just came out. That's just how I feel in that day to day life.”

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“[Writing] has helped me meet people.”

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“What Rare [albom] allows me to do is gonna show people other things that I'm capable of 'cause they really haven't heard a lot of things outside of the rap stuff that I do.”

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“I feel like I make a soundtrack for the come up, and I feel like there's so many people that's trying to figure out how to chase their dreams, or that are in the process of chasing their dreams, so they connect with that. And then being a singer, you don't really get to touch on nothing either.”

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“I think I just speak on what the regular people are going through outside of love 'cause, of course, there's always gonna be a love song, but there's so many other parts of life... being lost, feeling your way around, what you gonna do next.”

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“Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people who are being affected. Not so much the political speak at the top of the food chain, but the people who are affected by it on the ground.”

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“Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.”

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“I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.”

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“I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.”

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“I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.”

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“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.”

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“People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.”

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“Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.”

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“I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.”

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About the Author

Born: October 9, 1969
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 152

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