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.
KATE BUSHI don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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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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[“A Deal with God”] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I’d put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.
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There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.
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Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it’s a changing, like now.
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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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I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With this, I was trying to make it much more laid back.
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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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