Kate Bush quotes
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“I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.”
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“My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.”
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“Everyone of us has a heaven inside.”
-- Kate BushSource : Song: Them Heavy People, Album: The Kick Inside, 1978
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“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 BushSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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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.”
-- Kate BushSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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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“I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper...”
-- Kate BushSource : Interview with Paul Iorio, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.
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“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.”
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“Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.”
-- Kate BushSource : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.
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“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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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I spend a lot of time working and with my family, so I don't have much time around the edges to do much else. 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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“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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“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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“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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“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. So you had a strict boundary, and that was something I'd grown up with as well. Also, you were able to have different moods on each side, which was nice.”
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“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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“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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“Every old sock meets an old shoe”
-- Kate BushSource : Song: Moments Of Pleasure, Album: The Red Shoes, 1993
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“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.”
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“The more I think about sex, the better it gets!”
-- Kate BushSource : Song: Symphony In Blue, Album: Lionheart, 1978
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“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.”
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“Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van”
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“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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“The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation, good for releasing the tension.”
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“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.”
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“Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.”
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“I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.”
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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'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.”
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“As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.”
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“We let the weirdness in.”
-- Kate BushSource : Song: Leave It Open, Album: The Dreaming, 1982
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“When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.”
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“We let it in, we give it out, and in the end what's it all about? It must be love.”
-- Kate BushSource : Song: And So Is Love, Album: The Red Shoes, 1993
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“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 BushSource : Oral Roberts (1994). “Unleashing the Power of Praying in the Spirit”, Harrison House Incorporated
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“Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.”
-- Kate BushSource : Song: Them Heavy People, Album: The Kick Inside, 1978
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“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. Y'know, 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'.”
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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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“What made it special made it dangerous, so I bury it... and forget.”
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“Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now...”
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“I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood...”
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“Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.”
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“All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.”
-- Kate BushSource : Song: Nocturn, Album: Aerial, 2005
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“What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.”
-- Kate BushSource : Song: Eat The Music, Album: The Red Shoes, 1993
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“We used to say "Ah Hell, we're young" But now we see that life is sad And so is love.”
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“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...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.”
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“You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.”
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“Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.”
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“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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“I don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.”
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“They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.”
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“Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung,”
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“It's not important to me that people understand me.”
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“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.”
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“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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“I wasnt 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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“Its 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 BushSource : "Wolf Blitzer: Bachmann ‘McCarthy-Like’ In Attacking Huma Abedin" by Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2012.
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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.”
-- Kate BushSource : Song: Them Heavy People, Album: The Kick Inside, 1978
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“Don't ever think that you can't change the past.”
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