There’s always a Van der Graaf audience that wants to hear the band’s sound. And totally fair enough. Why not? It’s a band. You like the band, you like the band. Peter Hammill Read Quote
My dictum has always been: ‘This show is happening just here, just tonight, with these people who are in this hall, and nobody knows what’s going to happen until it’s done.’ Peter Hammill Read Quote
I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn’t with music. Peter Hammill Read Quote
I do flip between being chatty and argumentative – and being a psycho-loner werewolf. Peter Hammill Read Quote
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. Peter Hammill Read Quote
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. Peter Hammill Read Quote
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. Peter Hammill Read Quote
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives. Peter Hammill Read Quote
