Peter Hammill Quotes

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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.
• He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.
• Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
• I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which…
• I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently…
• I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77.

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