“Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial
All the time it's a changing, like now…”
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
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Kate Bush Quotes
“Get out of the waves! Get out of the water!”
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave
“Mummy…
Daddy…
The day is full of birds
Sounds like they're saying words…”
Spoken by Bush's son, Berty.
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“Only you can do something about it.
There's no-one there, my friend, any better.”
Song lyrics, 50 Words for Snow (2011)
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave
“Ooh find me the man with the ladder
And he might lift me up to the stars.”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
“Remember yourself.
You've got a Full House in your head tonight…”
"Remember yourself" was a motto of G. I. Gurdjieff, whose ideas were an early influence on Bush.
Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
“Let's change things.
Let's danger it up.
We're crazy enough.
I just can't take it.”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
“We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
Soul-birds of a feather flock together.”
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
“Get the bow going!
Let it scream to me:
Violin! Violin! Violin!”
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
“Lying in my tent
I can hear your cry
Echoing round the mountainside
You sound lonely”
Song lyrics, 50 Words for Snow (2011)
“You never really understood me.
You never really tried.”
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
“What really matters?
It's all we've got
Isn't that enough?”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
“I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.”
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“Just like a photograph,
I pick you up.
Just like a station on the radio,
I pick you up.”
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985)
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
MOJO interview (2005)
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
“Who is that girl? Do I know her face?”
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
“No, we never die for long,
While we've got that little life
To live for, where it's hid inside.”
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
“You stood in the belltower,
But now you're gone.
So who knows all the sights
Of Notre Dame?”
Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
“Do I look for those millionaires
Like a Machiavellian girl would
When I could wear the sunset?”
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“The whims that we're weeping for
Our parents would be beaten for.”
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
“"Don't you know you've kept him waiting?"
"Look who's here to see you!"”
Song lyrics, Hounds of Love (1985), The Ninth Wave
“Kashka from Baghdad
Lives in sin, they say,
With another man,
But no one knows who.”
Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)
Source: Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“Leave the breast
And then the nest
And then regret you ever left.”
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“I must work on my mind. For now I realise:
Everyone of us has a heaven inside.”
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
“Coming in with the golden light
In the morning.
Coming in with the golden light
Is the New Man.”
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
“He's big and pink, and not like me.
He sees no light.
He sees no reason for the fighting…”
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
“You bring me so much joy
And then you bring me
More joy…”
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sky of Honey (Disc 2)
“Like it or not, we were built tough,
Because we're woman.”
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
Variant: Like it or not, we keep bouncing back,
Because we're woman.
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot.
Them heavy people help me.”
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
“My excitement
Turns into fright.
All my words fade.
What am I gonna say?
Mustn't give the game away.”
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
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