I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
KATE BUSH[“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.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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All we’re ever looking for is another open door.
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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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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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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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Being nervous actually kept me very tense.
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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 love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don’t need no crystal ball, Don’t fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.
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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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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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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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Irish 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.
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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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What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.
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