[“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.
KATE BUSHI think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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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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They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.
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School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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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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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’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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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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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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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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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 love words, I think they’re fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it’s a difficult process but a lot of the time it’s really fun.
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Don’t ever think that you can’t change the past.
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