30 Quotes by Peter Hammill

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.

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.

Certainly more experimentation was allowed or demanded in the past by both musicians and audiences. But music meant something different then, I think.

If I'd finished my studies I should have been someone who understood enough about science to communicate it to society and vice versa.

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.

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 a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff.

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 addressed, as I haven’t had the time to go out and tout the songs.

I’ll never find a better time to be alive than now.