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 BUSHIts so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual – there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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’ll never know that you had all of me. You’ll never know the poetry you’ve stirred in me.
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Being nervous actually kept me very tense.
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I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.
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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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I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don’t need no crystal ball, Don’t fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.
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Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.
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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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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 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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I didn’t dare let my mind wander off.
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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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A few times, I’ve thought about doing them again, but it’s just kind of never happened. I’ve just sort of gone the path of becoming a recording artist I guess.
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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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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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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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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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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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Normally I don’t compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.
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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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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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All the time it’s a changing And all the dreamers are waking.
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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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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 snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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