My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.
KATE BUSHThey say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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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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Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.
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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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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 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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That doesn’t matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it’s great.
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I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.
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It’s a real joy to be moved by something, but it doesn’t happen often to me.
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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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I didn’t dare let my mind wander off.
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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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There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you’ll learn just what life’s all about.
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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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I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.
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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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