Peter Hammill

Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English singer-songwriter. He is a founder member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator.

Quotes

"Obviously we're English middle-class chaps - there's not much voodoo chile about us."
- On the time Van der Graaf Generator supported Jimi Hendrix. "Peter Hammill: Heart attack music" Interview with The Independent, 27 June 2004
"It is actually, in a way, an incredibly mundane experience. Not everyone has a heart attack but everyone has something or other, so I'm not remotely special. Just because I write songs doesn't make it a better or worse near-death experience."
- Interview with Mike Barnes, The Wire, March 2007

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Re-awakening isn't easy when you're tired.
Don't push me: I was taught self-expression
when I was a child
- "Re-awakening" on Fool's Mate (1971)
The streets seemed very crowded, I put on my bravest guise
I know you know that I am acting, I can see it in your eyes.
- "La Rossa" on Still Life by Van der Graaf Generator (1976)
These words are not enough to save my soul,
they just mock me from the mirror.
- "This side of the Looking-Glass" on Over (1977)
She's here now, perfume coiled like a thuggee scarf
- "Empress's Clothes" on Sitting Targets (1981)
If we were always here and now,
electric shiver in the spine,
how could we turn away, see life as grey and drab?
How come we don't see what we have?
- "Now Lover" on 'Skin (1986)