Latest Kate Bush Quotes from Interviews

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• It's a real joy to be moved by something, but it doesn't happen often to me.

  Kate Bush

  Real, Joy, Moved

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• However, if I ever were in a position to choose who would play me, I think I'd choose Johnny Depp.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, Play, Position

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us.

  Kate Bush

  Long Ago, Two, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I'm quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.

  Kate Bush

  Talking, Persons

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I don't think it's a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don't think my life is that interesting.

  Kate Bush

  Nice, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating!

  Kate Bush

  Hunting, Baths, Prowling

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me like it had this very good flow of energy.

  Kate Bush

  Snow, Energy, Albums

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• The thing with 50 Words of Snow is that it was literally back-to-back from Director's Cut [also released in 2011]. It was more or less that I got to make two albums in one hit. I was already in this space in my mind to be writing and making an album.

  Kate Bush

  Writing, Cutting, Two

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I'm not vanishing into thin air.

  Kate Bush

  Air, Vanishing, Thin Air

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Disappearing act? That's a magic trick, isn't it? I like magic tricks!

  Kate Bush

  Magic, Magic Tricks, Disappear

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Apart from the first set - which used high-level concert lighting - once you stepped into the two narrative pieces, we were working with lower-level theatrical lights. In most cases, people were really respectful of that.

  Kate Bush

  Light, Two, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the show.

  Kate Bush

  Theatre, Intimate, Shows

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Using telephones, they would be so intrusive and would really disrupt the show.

  Kate Bush

  Would Be, Telephones, Shows

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I suppose in some ways doing some of the songs in the show felt a bit like I was doing cover versions. I was covering myself. Not that they didn't feel like my songs, but the way I was approaching them was from a place so outside where they were written. The fact that these songs were in the context of a live show was a new thing.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Covering, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I didn't dare let my mind wander off.

  Kate Bush

  Mind, Wander, Dare

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I was so nervous every night that I had to really focus and keep myself in that moment so that I would not forget the words. I was really present for every song.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Night, Focus

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Being nervous actually kept me very tense.

  Kate Bush

  Nervous, Tense

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• The whole positioning and atmosphere of the song ["King of the Mountain"] was to build up this thunderstorm that would take us all onstage off into a story where we were suddenly in the middle of the ocean.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Kings, Ocean

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us from this concert setting of individual songs into the theatrical narrative piece.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Kings, Singing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I think we're all a party to this information all the time. It's every day, in a way we probably weren't a few years ago. We're more informed, which is a good thing because war is always there somewhere on the planet.

  Kate Bush

  War, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

  Kate Bush

  War, Planets, Terrible

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• [For Before the Dawn] it was in the hands of a fantastic drummer and percussionist and who drove it into another moment in time. It's such a poignant song and it was transformed into entirely different beast.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Hands, Dawn

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• For "Running Up That Hill" we had worked with a drum machine [in 1985]; the basic rhythms of "Running Up That Hill" happened because the whole track was built on a drum machine.

  Kate Bush

  Running, Track, Machines

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• With some of the songs, we brought the pitch down to alto.I'm older, so naturally my voice is lower now.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Voice

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• You have a different audience. Your personal energy is different because some days you're energized, some nights you might be tired so that affects your memory and your emotion.

  Kate Bush

  Memories, Tired, Night

  Source: www.macleans.ca