What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.
KATE BUSHMoving 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.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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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 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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Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.
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I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.
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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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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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There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you’ll learn just what life’s all about.
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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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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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All we’re ever looking for is another open door.
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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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It’s a real joy to be moved by something, but it doesn’t happen often to me.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t ever think that you can’t change the past.
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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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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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I don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.
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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 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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I’m quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.
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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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