Kate Bush Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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 inspiration floating about and grab them.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Lonely, Morning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Kate Bush

  Life, Song, Singing

  Song: Eat The Music, Album: The Red Shoes, 1993

• [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

• 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

  Song, Writing, Night

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

• 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

• 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

  Song, Writing, Might

  Interview with Paul Iorio, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.

• 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

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

  Kate Bush

  Song, Nice, Compliment

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

• 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

• Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.

  Kate Bush

  Song, Giving, Important

  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

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

  Kate Bush

  Song, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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

  Song, Night, Energy

  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

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