School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.
KATE BUSHI 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.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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Maybe if my songs feel personal, that’s very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.
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Every old sock meets an old shoe
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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’m quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t ever think that you can’t change the past.
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My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.
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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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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 spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.
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What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.
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