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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
