Kate Bush Quotes

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Kate Bush

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 30, 1958

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

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

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

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

Kate Bush

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

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 want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.

Kate Bush

Gene Wilder is so funny.

Kate Bush

When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

Kate Bush

I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

Kate Bush

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

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