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 BUSHThe 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.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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I don’t think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don’t really want to spend much time listening to it again.
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I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.
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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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Don’t ever think that you can’t change the past.
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In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that [“Never Be Mine”], there’s a completely different energy to it each night.
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Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it’s a very dominant trait.
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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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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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I didn’t dare let my mind wander off.
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The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it’s changing in a very positive way.
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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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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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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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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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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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