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.
KATE BUSHIf 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.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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All we’re ever looking for is another open door.
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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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I don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.
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I don’t think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don’t really want to spend much time listening to it again.
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My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.
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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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Moving stranger, Does it really matter, As long as you’re not afraid to feel? Touch me, hold me. How my open arms ache! Try to fall for me.
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You’ll never know that you had all of me. You’ll never know the poetry you’ve stirred in me.
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Even just making albums – which was more within the structure that I’ve worked in for years – you have no idea how people will respond. You don’t know if it’ll be any good whatsoever. It can be terrifying.
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I’m quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.
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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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That doesn’t matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it’s great.
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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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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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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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All the time it’s a changing And all the dreamers are waking.
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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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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 think it’s a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don’t think my life is that interesting.
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Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.
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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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I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.
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I have intentions as a writer, but people – when they’re listening to a track – will take from it what they interpret.
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Being nervous actually kept me very tense.
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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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Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.
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