Kate Bush famous quotes

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.
-- Kate Bush

#Thinking #Ideas #People

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

#Fantastic #Combination

Everyone of us has a heaven inside.
-- Kate Bush

#Inspirational #Heaven

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

#Thinking #Long #People

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 Bush

#Awful #Spending #Alone Time

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

#Mother #Brother #Playing Music

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper...
-- Kate Bush

#Fashion #Thinking #Trends

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

#Thinking #Expression #Energy

Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.
-- Kate Bush

#Jobs #Tools #Good Job

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

#Sound #Would Be #Tape

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

#Computer #Dramatic #Obvious

Clowns are always creepy!
-- Kate Bush

#Creepy #Clown

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

#Song #Writing #Night

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.
-- Kate Bush

#Albums #Watches #Stuff

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

#Effort #Trying #Laid Back

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

#Awful

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

#Lovely #Artistic #Vinyl

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.
-- Kate Bush

#Nice #Cutting #Different

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

#Artist #Albums #Faults

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

#Song #Writing #Might

Every old sock meets an old shoe
-- Kate Bush

#Shoes #Sock

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

#Personality #Parent #Needs

The more I think about sex, the better it gets!
-- Kate Bush

#Sex #Thinking

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

#Track #Dresses #Records

Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van
-- Kate Bush

#Bangs #Bonnets #Vans

When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it's not very far, just a step on a stair.
-- Kate Bush

#Stars #Angel #Steps

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.
-- Kate Bush

#Sex #Good Life #Thinking

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

#Video #Done #Television

Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.
-- Kate Bush

I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
-- Kate Bush

#Powerful #Thinking #Snow

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

#Magic #Follow Me

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

#Couple #Tired #Thinking

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

#Friendship #People #Evening

We let the weirdness in.
-- Kate Bush

#Reality #Weirdness

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.
-- Kate Bush

#Stars #Men #Astronaut

We let it in, we give it out, and in the end what's it all about? It must be love.
-- Kate Bush

#Love #Giving #Ends

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

#Just Saying

Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.
-- Kate Bush

#Inspirational #Fall #Miracle

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'.
-- Kate Bush

#Strong #Thinking #People

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

#Artist #Men #Quality

What made it special made it dangerous, so I bury it... and forget.
-- Kate Bush

#Special #Forget #Made

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

#Time #Jumping #White

I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood...
-- Kate Bush

#Time #Blue #Rooms

Just being alive It can really hurt These moments given Are a gift from time.
-- Kate Bush

#Time #Hurt #Alive

All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.
-- Kate Bush

#Time #Dreamer #Waking

What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.
-- Kate Bush

#Life #Song #Singing

We used to say "Ah Hell, we're young" But now we see that life is sad And so is love.
-- Kate Bush

#Life #Hell #Used

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.
-- Kate Bush

#Song #Lonely #Morning

You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.
-- Kate Bush

Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
-- Kate Bush

#Strong #Clothes #Humans

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

#Mind #Use #Height

I don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.
-- Kate Bush

#Together #Know Me

They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.
-- Kate Bush

#Men #Evil #Like You

I think quotes are very dangerous things.
-- Kate Bush

#Thinking #Dangerous

Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung,
-- Kate Bush

#Plutonium #Chips #Twinkling

It's not important to me that people understand me.
-- Kate Bush

#People #Important #Understand Me

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

#Children #School #Responsibility

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

#Who I Am #Years #Lasts

I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
-- Kate Bush

#Girl #Thinking #Lucky

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 Bush

#Unique #Thinking #Snowflake

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

#Moving #Fall #Long

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

#Fall #Miracle #Magic

Don't ever think that you can't change the past.
-- Kate Bush

#Past #Thinking #Dense