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.
KATE BUSHYou have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Being nervous actually kept me very tense.
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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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The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension.
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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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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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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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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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Every old sock meets an old shoe
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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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Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.
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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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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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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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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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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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What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.
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All the time it’s a changing And all the dreamers are waking.
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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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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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