Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
With some of the songs, we brought the pitch down to alto.I'm older, so naturally my voice is lower now. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
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… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that's fine, there's nothing… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
The whole positioning and atmosphere of the song ["King of the Mountain"] was to build up this thunderstorm that would take us… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I suppose in some ways doing some of the songs in the show felt a bit like I was doing cover versions.… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
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… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I think each album does have a different energy, otherwise you'd be doing the same thing again and not experimenting anew... Albums… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
It's funny when you write a song - it's easy for me now - but there's almost a second stage where you… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[For Before the Dawn] it was in the hands of a fantastic drummer and percussionist and who drove it into another moment… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
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.… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Even just making albums - which was more within the structure that I've worked in for years - you have no idea… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I was so nervous every night that I had to really focus and keep myself in that moment so that I would… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
To say that you like music is a bit like saying youlike the whole world. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
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… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
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… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
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… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
“Is there so much hate for the ones we love? Tell me we both matter don't we?” — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“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.” quote by Kate Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/658/kate-bush-1547_atmosphere_the-whole-positioning-and-atmosphere-of_1866117.jpg)
![“In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that ["Never Be Mine"], there's a completely different energy to it each night.” quote by Kate Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/088/kate-bush-1547_different_in-some-ways-when-you-re-envision-a-song_2367967.jpg)
![“[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.” quote by Kate Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/242/kate-bush-1547_beast_for-before-the-dawn-it-was-in-the-hands_432300.jpg)
![“["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.” quote by Kate Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e3/kate-bush-1547_albums_a-deal-with-god-was-the-first-single-off_1240484.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Kate Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/df1/kate-bush-1547_albums_the-thing-with-50-words-of-snow-is-that_3049984.jpg)
