Top 100 Quotes About Kate Bush
#1. I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.
Elton John
#2. Lili manages to mix Kate Bush with modern influences to make a beautifully unique sound based around her amazing violin skills and soulful voice.
Steve Lillywhite
#3. At the end of the day, the harsh reality is that if you're a fan of Kate Bush, Charles Dickens, Scrabble, David Attenborough and University Challenge, then there's not much out there for you in terms of a youth movement.
David Nicholls
#4. I used to do karaoke with Patrick Woolf in a karaoke box, and he would ring me up and say, 'Come down and do karaoke with me here,' and then we'd sing Kate Bush songs and get really, really emotional and theatrical in the booth.
Gwendoline Christie
#5. Seth's quote from his book:
"And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God and I'd get Him to swap our places"
-"Running up that Hill" by Kate Bush
Richelle Mead
#7. I love people like Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks and David Bowie - people that project themselves as characters and that contextualizes the music.
Tamaryn
#8. Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice; my favorite singer is Kate Bush and she's not a belter, or PJ Harvey ... I'm definitely more of an alternative girl.
Carmen Ejogo
#9. 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.
Kate Bush
#10. There is magic within, there is magic without. Follow me and you'll learn just what life's all about.
Kate Bush
#11. Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.
Kate Bush
#12. There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
Kate Bush
#13. It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.
Kate Bush
#14. 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 Bush
#15. 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.
Kate Bush
#16. 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.
Kate Bush
#17. 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.
Kate Bush
#18. 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.
Kate Bush
#19. Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung,
Kate Bush
#20. That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
Kate Bush
#21. The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
Kate Bush
#22. As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.
Kate Bush
#23. I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
Kate Bush
#24. 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?'
Kate Bush
#25. My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
Kate Bush
#26. 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 Bush
#27. It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
Kate Bush
#28. In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
Kate Bush
#29. 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.
Kate Bush
#30. I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
Kate Bush
#31. 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.
Kate Bush
#32. All we're ever looking for is another open door.
Kate Bush
#33. 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.
Kate Bush
#34. 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.
Kate Bush
#35. After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.
Kate Bush
#36. Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
Kate Bush
#37. Everyone of us has a heaven inside.
Kate Bush
#38. One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
Kate Bush
#39. Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
Kate Bush
#40. What am I singing?
A song of seeds
The food of love.
Eat the music.
Kate Bush
#41. Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
Kate Bush
#42. We used to say
"Ah Hell, we're young"
But now we see that life is sad
And so is love.
Kate Bush
#43. 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.
Kate Bush
#44. I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.
Kate Bush
#45. Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.
Kate Bush
#46. Don't ever think that you can't change the past.
Kate Bush
#47. Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.
Kate Bush
#48. I work in a very contained environment, usually.
Kate Bush
#49. 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.
Kate Bush
#50. 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.
Kate Bush
#51. For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
Kate Bush
#52. I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper ...
Kate Bush
#53. 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.
Kate Bush
#54. Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van
Kate Bush
#55. 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.
Kate Bush
#56. Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial
All the time it's a changing, like now ...
Kate Bush
#57. 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?
Kate Bush
#58. When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it's not very far, just a step on a stair.
Kate Bush
#59. In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.
Kate Bush
#60. 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.
Kate Bush
#61. 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.
Kate Bush
#62. 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.
Kate Bush
#63. When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.
Kate Bush
#64. 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.
Kate Bush
#65. My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
Kate Bush
#66. 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.
Kate Bush
#67. 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.
Kate Bush
#68. I'll always be tough on myself.
Kate Bush
#69. 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.
Kate Bush
#70. 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.
Kate Bush
#71. There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
Kate Bush
#72. Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.
Kate Bush
#73. 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.
Kate Bush
#74. When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It was my hobby. At some point, it then became a process that was mainly done within the context of the studio, and writing became part of the recording process.
Kate Bush
#75. I don't know you,
And you don't know me.
It is this that brings us together.
Kate Bush
#76. You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.
Kate Bush
#77. It's not my ambition to be a big star.
Kate Bush
#78. I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
Kate Bush
#79. I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.
Kate Bush
#80. I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
Kate Bush
#81. 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.
Kate Bush
#82. Is there so much hate for the ones we love?
Tell me we both matter don't we?
Kate Bush
#83. How could you leave me when I needed to possess you? I hated you, I loved you too
Kate Bush
#84. I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.
Kate Bush
#85. Every old sock meets an old shoe
Kate Bush
#86. Come up and be a kite,
On a diamond flight!
Kate Bush
#87. I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
Kate Bush
#88. I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
Kate Bush
#89. Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.
Kate Bush
#90. When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.
Kate Bush
#91. I don't get out to parties often.
Kate Bush
#92. I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
Kate Bush
#93. When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.
Kate Bush
#94. 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.
Kate Bush
#95. 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.
Kate Bush
#96. 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?
Kate Bush
#97. My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.
Kate Bush
#98. 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.
Kate Bush
#99. Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
Kate Bush
#100. 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.
Kate Bush
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