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title: "1 Reality Magic Quotes By Peter Blegvad"
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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-blegvad/the-goal-of-all-my-work-is-essentially-the-same-demonstrating-that/)

[Peter Blegvad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-blegvad/)

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## More by Peter Blegvad

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-blegvad/i-m-not-a-visionary-but-i-ve-spent-half-my-life-drawing-things/)

[Peter Blegvad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-blegvad/)

> [My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-blegvad/my-ignorance-would-require-a-volume-to-itself-between-its-covers/)

[Peter Blegvad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-blegvad/)

> [Anyone who grew up in the psychedelic '60s probably experienced their share of hypnagogic fireworks. Just as sex got me hooked on anatomy, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-blegvad/anyone-who-grew-up-in-the-psychedelic-60s-probably-experienced-their/)

[Peter Blegvad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-blegvad/)

> [One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-blegvad/one-of-the-beauties-of-working-in-radio-is-the-way-a-whole-setting/)

[Peter Blegvad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-blegvad/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-blegvad/for-decades-i-d-flit-from-drawing-table-to-typewriter-to-guitar-with/)

[Peter Blegvad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-blegvad/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-blegvad/i-ve-written-a-lot-of-wordy-erudite-pretentious-songs-but-believe-it/)

[Peter Blegvad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-blegvad/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-blegvad/i-remember-bob-dylan-saying-in-an-interview-that-at-a-certain-point/)

[Peter Blegvad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-blegvad/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-blegvad/i-d-done-a-drawing-of-the-model-using-only-peripheral-vision-looking/)

[Peter Blegvad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-blegvad/)

> [I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-blegvad/i-wanted-to-be-a-poet-and-or-an-artist-but-i-was-very-lazy-frightened/)

[Peter Blegvad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-blegvad/)

> [Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-blegvad/some-songs-seem-to-achieve-the-quality-of-a-geometric-object-a-ball/)

[Peter Blegvad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-blegvad/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-blegvad/songs-came-first-i-started-out-in-1965-trying-to-copy-the-beatles-bob/)

[Peter Blegvad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-blegvad/)

> [The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-blegvad/the-goal-of-all-my-work-is-essentially-the-same-demonstrating-that/)

[Peter Blegvad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-blegvad/)

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