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.
KATE BUSHWhen 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.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you’ll learn just what life’s all about.
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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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Don’t ever think that you can’t change the past.
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What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.
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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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They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.
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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 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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