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 BUSHI think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.
More Kate Bush Quotes
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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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I knew I wanted it to be a piece of theatre rather than just a concert.
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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 think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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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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You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.
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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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All the time it’s a changing And all the dreamers are waking.
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I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we’ve had.
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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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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 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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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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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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