P. J. Harvey
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RASHID JOHNSON SERJ TANKIAN I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and... JOSHUA FERRIS EARL MONROE EDGAR BRONFMAN, JR. KEN BURNS CALEB LANDRY JONES WINONA RYDER ROY AYERS I play vinyl and CDs. Playing vinyl is the best sound quality you can get playing music loudly, so t... JAMIE XX My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They h... PATTI LABELLE CHUCK D LOIS LOWRY I haven't had the best past with my father, but today we are reconciled. Today there is no record of... DEDRICK D. L. PITTER What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because ... AL JARREAU KERRY WASHINGTON JANE AUSTEN CAITLIN FLANAGAN I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming fee... FLORENCE WELCH KELLAN LUTZ BAHMAN GHOBADI BRUNO MARS The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my... FRANKIE VALLI HENRY ROLLINS DEBBIE HARRY There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their ... P. J. HARVEY WINONA RYDER The thing that happened with the music business, there are no stores anymore where you can buy music... JONATHAN GALASSI A. S. BYATT My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around m... MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO DIANE VON FURSTENBERG LEMON ANDERSEN If they had killed by father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peac... WILLIAM BERKELEY MALCOLM D. LEE GREG GRAFFIN ARABELLA WEIR RUPERT MURDOCH I'm from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mo... CARRIE COON There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did... CHERYL LADD In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. T... ELIZABETH PEYTON JULIE ANDREWS BRYSON TILLER Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's g... JAKE OWEN CRAIG GROESCHEL PARIS JACKSON My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, the... FLUME DIEGO DELLA VALLE I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric g... EVAN RACHEL WOOD CONOR OBERST DAVID COOK My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company. EVA HERZIGOVA JAY-Z JUNE CARTER CASH QUENTIN TARANTINO I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if... RAVI SHANKAR When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way th... MARK RONSON I have a very long and beautiful love affair with Elvis Presley. I own every record he ever made, so... ALEXANDRA SHIPP KENNY G I think what they are doing is extraordinary. They have created support for contemporary art in the ... JULIEN ROBSON JACK BLACK J. D. SALINGER My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ... MACKENZIE PHILLIPS CHRIS EVANS My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ... LAURA BENANTI MURIEL BARBERY My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an... STEPHEN PAGLIUCA Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop mu... ALOE BLACC I feel like I have an amazing support team, between my husband and my nanny and my parents, who are ... 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HARVEY I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I... P. J. HARVEY I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought. P. J. HARVEY There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their ... P. J. HARVEY People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. P. J. HARVEY It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore... P. J. HARVEY Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress. P. J. HARVEY I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. ... P. J. HARVEY I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like ... P. J. HARVEY There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises. P. J. HARVEY People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B... P. J. HARVEY I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music. P. J. HARVEY I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it di... P. J. HARVEY I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information... P. J. HARVEY I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recogni... P. J. HARVEY I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca... P. J. HARVEY I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply. P. J. HARVEY I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been s... P. J. HARVEY The construction of our new headquarters reflects both the optimism with which we view the energy bu... J. 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Rat Records in Camberwell is where most of my record collection has come from. It's like someone... 
I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing l... 
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick invo... 
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... 
You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if... 
I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix B... 
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my gran... 
My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best ... 
Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their m... 
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My... 
Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror. 
I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of loc... 
[…] You are very right in supposing how my money would be spent – some of it, at least – my lo... 
My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in Ca... 
I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned... 
I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one af... 
My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so ... 
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Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric wi... 
My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a... 
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the k... 
Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it&#... 
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how k... 
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren... 
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My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of rol... 
I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that... 
Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... 
I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. 
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I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want... 
I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's ... 
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... 
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge... 
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My family is certainly very vocal. They're very Italian. A lot of our holidays end with people s... 
Iata deci cugetarea mea profunda pe ziua de azi: e pentru prima oara cand intalnesc pe cineva care c... 
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. 
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on... 
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a... 
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. 
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen. 
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do ... 
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. 
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. 
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to... 