Peter Hammill Quotes & Sayings
20 most famous Peter Hammill quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 76 year old British musician born on Nov 5, 1948.
“Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.”
“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 and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.”
“I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.”
“I suppose, in a way, one could say I may be less interested in my career than the audience is. Not to mean that I'm disinterested in my career, but I don't see it in terms of one stepping stone or, 'Now I'm going to go into my blue phase,' or what have you.”
“Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.”
“I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.”
“So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77.”
“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 to get some depth into them.”
“I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.”
“The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff.”
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