Quotes by Peter Hammill - Page 1

To be honest, I don't know really what I do on stage.
Peter Hammill / Singer
To Be Honest
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So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Alienated
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He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Statistics
Trying
Two
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I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Flip
Werewolf
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I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.
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Novelist
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Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Natural
Song
Stuff
Terminology
Theory
Being Used
Push
Me Always Being
Scientific
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I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Currents
Metaphor
Sake
Current
Retain
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A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Answers
Book
Looks
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More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Collections
Generator
Lingering
Solo
Thanks
Vinyl
Suppose
More People
Van
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There's always a Van der Graaf audience that wants to hear the band's sound. And totally fair enough. Why not? It's a band. You like the band, you like the band.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Why Not
Van
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I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Faithful
Guilt
Battlefield
Catholics
Jesuits
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My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree and stopped when she saw what turned up.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Aunt
Grandfather
Tree
Pakistani
Trace
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Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Analysis
Depth
Shut Up
External
Seriously
Shut
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My dictum has always been: 'This show is happening just here, just tonight, with these people who are in this hall, and nobody knows what's going to happen until it's done.'
Peter Hammill / Singer
Tonight
Always Done People
Dictum
Hall
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I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Wisdom
Believe
Contrary
Homogeneity
Individual
Interesting
Song
Variety
Album
Indeed
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The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Forever
Thinking
Topics
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The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Continuing
Forever
Recurring
Main
Passage
Topic
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If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output or my capacity to perform. And it has given me a lot to think and write about.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Thankful
Affected
Capacity
Given
Output
Attack
Perform
Mine
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Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Couple
Europe
Publishing
Song
Time Done People
Covers
Time People Done
Few People
Marc
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Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Art
Big Picture
Examination
Grain
Lying
Mundane
Sand
Seeing
Strokes
Thinking
Picture
Apparently
Broad
Directions
Grain Of Sand
Hand
Lies
Minute
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The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Becoming
Crucial
Enthusiasm
Examination
Meaningless
Passive
Spheres
Thinking
Fired
More And More
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I suppose, in a way, one could say I may be less interested in my career than the audience is. Not to mean that I'm disinterested in my career, but I don't see it in terms of one stepping stone or, 'Now I'm going to go into my blue phase,' or what have you.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Audience
Blue
Disinterested
Interested
Career
Suppose
Phase
Terms
Stepping
Stepping Stone
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It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.
Peter Hammill / Singer
Safety
Time Always Past
Time Past People
Develop
Option
In The Past
Preferred
Promote
Reference
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