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.
KATE BUSHMy desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.
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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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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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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All we’re ever looking for is another open door.
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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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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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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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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 that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.
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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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I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there’s an awful lot you learn about yourself when you’re alone.
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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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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 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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[“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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