Top 60 Kate Bush Quotes

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

I don’t listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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
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
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
One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
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
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
I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can’t actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.
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
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
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
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
In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
Kate Bush
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
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
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
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
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.
Kate Bush
I don’t really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
Kate Bush
There is a figure that is adored, but I’d question very strongly that it’s me.
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
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
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
I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
Kate Bush
I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
Kate Bush
I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.
Kate Bush
People said I couldn’t gig, and I proved them wrong.
Kate Bush
Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
Kate Bush
When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
Kate Bush
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
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
Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my wo

Thanks to everyone who’s encouraged and supported my work over the years.
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
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
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
It’s not my ambition to be a big star.
Kate Bush
Sometimes when I’m going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there’s, like, 40 people all looking at you… and when you go around the corner, they’re all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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
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
I definitely don’t think of myself as being an influence.
Kate Bush
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
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.
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 am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
Kate Bush
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
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
I don’t get out to parties often.
Kate Bush
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
Kate Bush
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
Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
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 think it’s important that things are flawed.
Kate Bush
I work in a very contained environment, usually.
Kate Bush
I’ll always be tough on myself.
Kate Bush
It’s not important to me that people understand me.
Kate Bush
Whenever I see the news, it’s always the same depressing things.
Kate Bush
Gene Wilder is so funny.
Kate Bush
I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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
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