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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
Anyone who grew up in the psychedelic '60s probably experienced their share of hypnagogic fireworks. Just as sex got me hooked on anatomy, so… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
