School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.
KATE BUSHIf 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.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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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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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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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 don’t really listen to a great deal of music. I love music, but since I spend a lot of time in the studio, we probably watch a movie rather than listen to albums. I get to hear stuff, but not on the grand scale.
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Every old sock meets an old shoe
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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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That doesn’t matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it’s great.
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The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension.
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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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They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.
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A few times, I’ve thought about doing them again, but it’s just kind of never happened. I’ve just sort of gone the path of becoming a recording artist I guess.
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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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I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there’s an awful lot you learn about yourself when you’re alone.
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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.
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