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.
KATE BUSHI wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I’ve ever had. My mother’s Irish. And when I was very young, both my brothers were very into traditional music, English and Irish. They were always playing music, so I was always brought up with it.
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When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it’s not very far, just a step on a stair.
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I didn’t dare let my mind wander off.
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I will say it is great to have a woman in charge of the country.
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That doesn’t matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it’s great.
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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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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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There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you’ll learn just what life’s all about.
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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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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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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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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 think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.
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I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.
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I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we’ve had.
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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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I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.
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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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I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.
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All the time it’s a changing And all the dreamers are waking.
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It’s not that I don’t like American pop; I’m a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding.
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If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It’s always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.
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School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.
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I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
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What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.
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