Will Harvey Quotes

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

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

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

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.

Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!

I was always a dreamer with high aspirations, but I kept coming up short my whole life.

My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can’t be shared.

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly.

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.

I've done 12 in one night, you know what I mean - loads of them... Really, in the long run, it's a safe pill and it ain't doing you no harm. I don't see the problem.

It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

Let our children be taught love love love.

Train our children to love God.

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.

Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.

When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

Money must exist before it can be turned into capital.

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

Capital creates space-time.

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.

The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.

We judge ourselves mostly by our intentions, but others judge us mostly by our actions.

You earn the right to expect recognition by giving it! It's that simple

Your reach should always exceed your grasp.

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

If you think your picture needs something, take something out.

To paint a mass simple and big you must keep out all the lights and darks that do not belong to its general value.

Do not have an important dark and important light in the same picture they will destroy each other.

Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.

A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.