Peter Blegvad

(1951) Guitarist

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Peter Blegvad is a guitarist.

Quick Facts About Peter Blegvad

Born: August 14, 1951
Profession: Guitarist

About Peter Blegvad

[Wikidata] American singer-songwriter... | [Wikipedia] Peter Blegvad is an American musician, singer-songwriter, writer, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of German/English avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums. He is the son of Lenore and Erik Blegvad, who were

Quotes 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…

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Compare

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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…

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Constructs

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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…

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Anatomy

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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…

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Bells

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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…

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Appetite

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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…

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Believe

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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…

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Bob

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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…

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Clouds

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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…

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Art

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Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess…

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Achieve

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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…

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Beats

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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…

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Attention

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