P. J. Harvey Quotes

At one point, I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

I never thought being a musician would be something I could make a career out of.

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.

I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.

I was someone who knew what they wanted to do for so long. I was always fascinated by music, always a student of pop.

In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided that that's really what I wanted to pursue as a career, and that's what I was going to study.

I wanted to be a musician and studied vocals in London for a year and then I gave it up.

I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.

I went to college to find myself. That's where I really realized I wanted to be a recording artist and started on the process of figuring out how to do that.

Even in high school, music was just a really fun thing on the side. I don't think I grasped the fact that it could be a profession.

I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.

I actually always wanted to end up somewhere in music, I just didn't know what.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

Music is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.