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.
KATE BUSHThere are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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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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Every old sock meets an old shoe
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Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual – there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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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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What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.
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Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.
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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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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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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 wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
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I’m quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.
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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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Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.
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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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All the time it’s a changing And all the dreamers are waking.
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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 will say it is great to have a woman in charge of the country.
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There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.
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Normally I don’t compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.
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We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she’s wonderful. I think it’s the best thing that’s happened to us in a long time.
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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 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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Being nervous actually kept me very tense.
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You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.
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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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