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.
KATE BUSHYou 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.
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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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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Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.
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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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My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.
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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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Normally I don’t compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.
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Don’t ever think that you can’t change the past.
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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 have intentions as a writer, but people – when they’re listening to a track – will take from it what they interpret.
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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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You’re never really happy. I’m certainly not. That’s a good thing. It means you’re always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.
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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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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 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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