You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don’t know. That’s part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.
KATE BUSHNobody really knows, do they? They told Stephen Hawking he only had a year left to live and how many years ago was that? You can’t know it all.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it’s changing in a very positive way.
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We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she’s wonderful. I think it’s the best thing that’s happened to us in a long time.
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I didn’t dare let my mind wander off.
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In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that [“Never Be Mine”], there’s a completely different energy to it each night.
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You’re never really happy. I’m certainly not. That’s a good thing. It means you’re always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.
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Artists shouldn’t be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance… It is man-made so the press can feed off it.
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Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that’s just a part of being an artist – it’s hard being a human being, isn’t it?
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The thing with 50 Words of Snow is that it was literally back-to-back from Director’s Cut [also released in 2011]. It was more or less that I got to make two albums in one hit. I was already in this space in my mind to be writing and making an album.
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The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn’t really sure that I could better them – I don’t know if I have bettered them.
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I love words, I think they’re fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it’s a difficult process but a lot of the time it’s really fun.
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There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you’ll learn just what life’s all about.
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Normally I don’t compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.
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When you’d buy vinyl, you’d have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you’d read the lyrics and usually there was something artistic that went with it.
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I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don’t think it matters at all what I had originally intended.
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It’s a real joy to be moved by something, but it doesn’t happen often to me.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn’t want to do. I was terrified. I’d never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.
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What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.
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All we’re ever looking for is another open door.
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If ever there’s been somebody to hold as an icon of sheer determination and willpower, it’s that guy [Stephen Hawking ], let alone any of the things he’s done scientifically. I’m sure that’s his driving force, but he’s a miracle and an aspiration.
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You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.
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They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.
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I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.
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Nobody really knows, do they? They told Stephen Hawking he only had a year left to live and how many years ago was that? You can’t know it all.
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I will say it is great to have a woman in charge of the country.
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