110+ Kate Bush Quotes On Education, Culture And World

Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. She is known for her innovative and eclectic musical style which incorporates a wide variety of influences including folk, classical, electronic, and avant-garde. She is the first female artist to have a UK number-one with a self-written song, and has released twenty-five UK Top 40 singles, including the top ten hits "The Man with the Child in His Eyes", "Babooshka", "Running Up That Hill", and "King of the Mountain". Following is our collection on famous quotes by Kate Bush on education, love, culture.

Top 10 Kate Bush Quotes

1. Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. I'm always hunting and prowling. I'm sure Brian [Bath] was exaggerating!
5. I wasnt an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
6. Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.
7. I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.
8. 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.
9. School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.
10. Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

Kate Bush Short Quotes

• All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.
• We let the weirdness in.
• I haven't actually seen a Lady Gaga tour, but I do think she's very good.
• I think quotes are very dangerous things.
• Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
• My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.
• Every old sock meets an old shoe
• Disappearing act? That's a magic trick, isn't it? I like magic tricks!
• I'm quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.
• Everyone of us has a heaven inside.

Kate Bush Quotes About Love

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

I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it's a difficult process but a lot of the time it's really fun. — Kate Bush

I love comedy. I like to think that there's a sense of humor in some of my music - obviously not all of it. — Kate Bush

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

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

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

["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance. — Kate Bush

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

Kate Bush Quotes About World

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

The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way. — Kate Bush

To say that you like music is a bit like saying youlike the whole world. — Kate Bush

Kate Bush Famous Quotes And Sayings

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me when I was little. — Kate Bush

You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there. — 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

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

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly. — Kate Bush

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

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. — Kate Bush

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

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

There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions. — Kate Bush

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

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

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

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country. — Kate Bush

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could. — Kate Bush

I feel like I have to do some promotion to let the people know that the records are out there; but I kind of like the idea that it's my work that does the talking rather than me. — Kate Bush

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

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

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time. — Kate Bush

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

I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret. — Kate Bush

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

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

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

I didn't dare let my mind wander off. — Kate Bush

Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't. — Kate Bush

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

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

Being nervous actually kept me very tense. — 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. 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

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

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

All we're ever looking for is another open door. — 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

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

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something. — Kate Bush

I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don't think it matters at all what I had originally intended. — Kate Bush

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

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

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

[Theresa May] is very sensible and I think that's a good thing at this point in time. — Kate Bush

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

I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did. — Kate Bush

I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people. — Kate Bush

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best. — Kate Bush

I don't really listen to my old stuff, but on occasion, I would either hear a track on the radio or a friend might play me one, and there was generally a bit of an edgy sound to it, which was mainly due to the digital equipment that we were using, which was state of the art at the time - and I think everyone felt pressured to be working that way. — Kate Bush

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

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

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

Even just making albums - which was more within the structure that I've worked in for years - you have no idea how people will respond. You don't know if it'll be any good whatsoever. It can be terrifying. — Kate Bush

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

Nobody really knows, do they? They told Stephen Hawking he only had a year left to live and how many years ago was that? You can't know it all. — Kate Bush

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait. — Kate Bush

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

Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment. — Kate Bush

[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

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own. — Kate Bush

In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that ["Never Be Mine"], there's a completely different energy to it each night. — Kate Bush

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work. — Kate Bush

I split it up into working on the two narrative pieces that can tell a story. The scariest thing was whether I'd be any good performing live again. It was such a long time since I'd done any live work. It's so different for me than recording. Every night my audiences were what I would dream of. You could just feel their support. — Kate Bush

I've learned you can't take any steps to protect any art. It is so vulnerable. — Kate Bush

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

I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth. — Kate Bush

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

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

I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had. — Kate Bush

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

You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better. — Kate Bush

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

As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process. — Kate Bush

It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive. They asked me if I would change ["A Deal with God"]. — Kate Bush

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

If ever there's been somebody to hold as an icon of sheer determination and willpower, it's that guy [Stephen Hawking ], let alone any of the things he's done scientifically. I'm sure that's his driving force, but he's a miracle and an aspiration. — Kate Bush

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

I will say it is great to have a woman in charge of the country. — Kate Bush

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

I'd become very involved in the production, so the albums were taking longer. So it was never a deliberate decision not to do live shows. A few times, I've thought about doing them again, but it's just kind of never happened. I've just sort of gone the path of becoming a recording artist I guess. — Kate Bush

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

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

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

You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening. — Kate Bush

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

Life Lessons by Kate Bush

1. Kate Bush has shown that it is possible to have a successful career in the music industry by being true to yourself and your own unique style.
2. She has demonstrated the importance of taking risks and pushing boundaries in order to create something truly original and innovative.
3. Her work has also highlighted the power of collaboration and the importance of surrounding yourself with people who will support and nurture your creative vision.