Kate Bush Quotes & Sayings

#1. For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.

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#2. There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you'll learn just what life's all about.

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#3. Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.

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#4. There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

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#8. Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.

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#9. Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung,

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#10. As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.

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#11. Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'

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#12. 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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#13. It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.

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#14. In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

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#15. I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

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#16. I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

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#17. Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that's very simple pop.

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#18. All we're ever looking for is another open door.

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#19. My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.

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#20. The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.

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#21. Everyone of us has a heaven inside.

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#22. Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.

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#23. What am I singing?
A song of seeds
The food of love.
Eat the music.

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#24. Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

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#25. I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea of trying to be different people coming from all kinds of different angles. Most of it was just from my imagination.

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#26. Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.

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#27. I work in a very contained environment, usually.

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#28. I like to work with a combination of analog and Pro Tools. I love the sound of analog tape, but there's so many things you can do with Pro Tools that would be incredibly difficult and very time-consuming with analog.

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#29. The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.

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#30. I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper ...

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#31. It's funny when you write a song - it's easy for me now - but there's almost a second stage where you take control of the song. You start writing it, and if you're not careful, it just finishes itself and it might not be what you wanted. It's very strange, it takes over itself. It has its own life.

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#32. Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van

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#33. If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time ... evaporates.

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#34. Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial
All the time it's a changing, like now ...

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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.

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#38. I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but why can't that exist hand in hand with an album? They're such different experiences.

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#39. My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

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#40. People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist.

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#41. I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.

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#42. My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

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#43. It's 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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#44. We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

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#45. I'll always be tough on myself.

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#46. 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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#47. I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

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#48. There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

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#49. Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

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#50. I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

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#51. It's not my ambition to be a big star.

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#52. I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

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#53. Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.

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#54. Is there so much hate for the ones we love?
Tell me we both matter don't we?

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#55. How could you leave me when I needed to possess you? I hated you, I loved you too

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#56. I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.

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#57. Come up and be a kite,
On a diamond flight!

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#58. Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

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#59. I don't get out to parties often.

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#60. I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.

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#61. When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.

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#62. I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.

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#63. As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

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#64. 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, do you think?

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#65. My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.

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#66. Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.

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#67. I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

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#68. I think it's important that things are flawed.

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#69. I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.

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#70. We let the weirdness in.

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#71. Clowns are always creepy!

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#72. There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

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#73. When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

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#74. What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

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#75. I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it's my work that does the talking rather than me.

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#76. I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.

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#77. People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

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#78. I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.

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#79. It's not important to me that people understand me.

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#80. People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.

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#81. I 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.

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#82. Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.

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#83. Gene Wilder is so funny.

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#84. The more I think about sex, the better it gets!

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#85. The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.

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#86. Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

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#87. I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.

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#88. I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

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#89. I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

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#90. My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

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#91. Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

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#92. 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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