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.
KATE BUSHIrish 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.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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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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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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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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Normally I don’t compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.
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I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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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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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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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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[“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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Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.
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I didn’t dare let my mind wander off.
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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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You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.
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If 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it’s achieved properly.
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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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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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I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.
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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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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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