Quotes by Peter Blegvad - Page 1

Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.
Peter Blegvad / Musician
Quality
Balls
Song
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I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.
Peter Blegvad / Musician
Artist
Lazy
Too Much
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Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.
Peter Blegvad / Musician
Kids
Song
Trying
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I remember Bob Dylan saying in an interview that at a certain point he'd had to learn to do consciously what he'd previously done unconsciously or automatically. That resonates.
Peter Blegvad / Musician
Bob
Done
Interviews
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One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and a church bell in the distance.
Peter Blegvad / Musician
Church Bells
Distance
Track
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My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I had in my head, a prelapsarian construct, uncorrupted by the facts.
Peter Blegvad / Musician
Ignorance
Records
Would Be
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The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.
Peter Blegvad / Musician
Goal
Magic
Real
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I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the temptation to be overly "clever," and trying to keep things as accessible - and singable - as possible.
Peter Blegvad / Musician
Believe
Clever
Song
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For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the same psychic muscle (the Imagination), and working in one medium refreshed my appetite for the others.
Peter Blegvad / Musician
Guitar
Psychics
Typewriters
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I'm not a visionary, but I've spent half my life drawing things Imagined, Remembered, and Observed, comparing the differences between them, and my study confirms that "the difference between night and day / is not as great as people say."
Peter Blegvad / Musician
Differences
Drawing
Night
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Anyone who grew up in the psychedelic '60s probably experienced their share of hypnagogic fireworks. Just as sex got me hooked on anatomy, so drugs were probably what first got me interested in entoptic phenomena, phosphenes, and hypnagogic imagery.
Peter Blegvad / Musician
Drug
Firsts
Sex
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I'd done a drawing of the model using only peripheral vision, looking at a spot on the wall to the right of where she sat. It wasn't really a drawing of her I produced; it was a drawing of the cloud of lights and darks she dissolved into when I focused on the spot. You could look at my drawing of this cloud and read it as a nude female figure, though a little translation was required.
Peter Blegvad / Musician
Clouds
Light
Wall
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