Kate Bush Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Kate Bush
When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right. — Kate Bush
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
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
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
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
I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in. — Kate Bush
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
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. — Kate Bush
I don't really listen to my old stuff, but on occasion, I would either hear a track on the radio or a friend might play me one, and there was generally a bit of an edgy sound to it, which was mainly due to the digital equipment that we were using, which was state of the art at the time - and I think everyone felt pressured to be working that way. — Kate Bush
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
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
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
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
I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.' — Kate Bush
My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private. — Kate Bush
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. — Kate Bush
In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently. — Kate Bush
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. — Kate Bush
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
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
But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation. — Kate Bush
I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it's a difficult process but a lot of the time it's really fun. — Kate Bush
As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend. — Kate Bush
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
When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it's not very far, just a step on a stair. — Kate Bush
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
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
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. — Kate Bush
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
The more I think about sex, the better it gets! — Kate Bush
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
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
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
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
Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time. — Kate Bush
I don't get out to parties often. — Kate Bush
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. — Kate Bush
The only person with you all your life is you. Your parents die. Things inside you die - illusions, gushes of personality. Only you can sort yourself out. Yourself may not be all you need, but it's all you've got. — Kate Bush
All we're ever looking for is another open door. — Kate Bush
I think it's important that things are flawed. — Kate Bush
I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him. — Kate Bush
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. — Kate Bush
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
Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years. — Kate Bush
I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre. — Kate Bush
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. — Kate Bush
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 Bush
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. — Kate Bush
I spend a lot of my time looking at blue,
The colour of my room and my mood ... — Kate Bush
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
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
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
If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun. — Kate Bush
I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere. — Kate Bush
Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really. — Kate Bush
What am I singing?
A song of seeds
The food of love.
Eat the music. — Kate Bush
The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic. — Kate Bush
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
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
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
Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment. — Kate Bush
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
I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more. — Kate Bush
I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on. — Kate Bush
Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States. — Kate Bush
I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting. — Kate Bush
Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work. — Kate Bush
Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them. — Kate Bush
When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more. — Kate Bush
What made it special made it dangerous, so I bury it ... and forget. — Kate Bush
I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while. — Kate Bush
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
I think each album does have a different energy, otherwise you'd be doing the same thing again and not experimenting anew ... Albums are such autobiographical material, not in the material but as an expression of what you're like at the time. — Kate Bush
Gene Wilder is so funny. — Kate Bush
I work in a very contained environment, usually. — Kate Bush
It's not important to me that people understand me. — Kate Bush
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
I haven't actually seen a Lady Gaga tour, but I do think she's very good. — Kate Bush
I think quotes are very dangerous things. — Kate Bush
There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song. — Kate Bush
Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own. — Kate Bush
Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job. — Kate Bush
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
Don't ever think that you can't change the past. — Kate Bush
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
To say that you like music is a bit like saying youlike the whole world. — Kate Bush
I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time. — Kate Bush
I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world. — Kate Bush
One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience. — Kate Bush
My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work. — Kate Bush
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
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. — Kate Bush
I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country. — Kate Bush
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