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 BUSHI wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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I don’t really listen to a great deal of music. I love music, but since I spend a lot of time in the studio, we probably watch a movie rather than listen to albums. I get to hear stuff, but not on the grand scale.
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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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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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That doesn’t matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it’s great.
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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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Every old sock meets an old shoe
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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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All we’re ever looking for is another open door.
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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 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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I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.
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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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[“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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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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You’ll never know that you had all of me. You’ll never know the poetry you’ve stirred in me.
KATE BUSH