Kate Bush Quotes

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“Get out of the waves! Get out of the water!”

“Mummy…
Daddy…
The day is full of birds
Sounds like they're saying words…”

“Only you can do something about it.
There's no-one there, my friend, any better.”

“I'll kiss the ground.
I'll tell my mother,
I'll tell my father,
I'll tell my loved one,
I'll tell my brothers
How much I love them.”

“Ooh find me the man with the ladder
And he might lift me up to the stars.”

“Remember yourself.
You've got a Full House in your head tonight…”

“Elvis are you out there somewhere
Looking like a happy man?
In the snow with '
And King of the Mountain.”

“Let's change things.
Let's danger it up.
We're crazy enough.
I just can't take it.”

“We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
Soul-birds of a feather flock together.”

“Get the bow going!
Let it scream to me:
Violin! Violin! Violin!”

“The thrill and the hurting
Will never be mine.”

“Lying in my tent
I can hear your cry
Echoing round the mountainside
You sound lonely”

“You never really understood me.
You never really tried.”

“I found a book on how to be invisible
You take a pinch of keyhole,
And fold yourself up,
You cut along the dotted lines.
You think inside out.
You're invisible.”

“I don't mind if it's dangerous
I don't mind if it's raining
Take me up to the top of the city
And put me up on the angel's shoulders.”

“What really matters?
It's all we've got
Isn't that enough?”

“I am my enemy
Mowing me over,
And towing the light away.”

“I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.”

“Just like a photograph,
I pick you up.
Just like a station on the radio,
I pick you up.”

“You don't want to hurt me,
But see how deep the bullet lies.
Unaware I'm tearing you asunder.
Ooh, there is thunder in our hearts.”

“Oh the dawn has come
And the song must be sung
And the flowers are melting.
What kind of language is this?”

“There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: "Here's what I've been working on," and then produced some cakes from your oven. True?
"No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?"”

“A diamond kite
On a diamond flight.
Over the lights, under the moon.
Over the lights, under the moon.
Over the moon, over the moon!”

“Oh and the waves are going out
Oh and the waves are coming in
Out of the corner of my eye
I think I see you standing outside
But it's just your shirt
Hanging on the washing line
Waving it's arm as the wind blows by
And it looks so alive
Nice and white
Just like it's climbed right out
of my washing machine…”

“Who is that girl? Do I know her face?”

“No, we never die for long,
While we've got that little life
To live for, where it's hid inside.”

“You stood in the belltower,
But now you're gone.
So who knows all the sights
Of Notre Dame?”

“Do I look for those millionaires
Like a Machiavellian girl would
When I could wear the sunset?”

“The whims that we're weeping for
Our parents would be beaten for.”

“"Don't you know you've kept him waiting?"
"Look who's here to see you!"”

“Kashka from Baghdad
Lives in sin, they say,
With another man,
But no one knows who.”

“Nobody knows about my man.
They think he's lost on some horizon.
And suddenly I find myself
Listening to a man I've never known before,
Telling me about the sea,
All his love, 'til Eternity.”

“I want to smack but I hold back.
I only want to touch.
But I must stay and find a way
To stop before it gets too much!
All my barriers are going.
It's starting to show.”

“We dive deeper and deeper
Could be we are here
Could be in my dream
It came up on the horizon
Rising and rising
In a sea of honey, a sky of honey.”

“Leave the breast
And then the nest
And then regret you ever left.”

“Here comes the sunshine
Here comes that son of mine
Here comes the everything
Here's a song and a song for him.”

“This is where the shadows come to play twixt the day
And night
Dancing and skipping
Along a chink of light”

“I must work on my mind. For now I realise:
Everyone of us has a heaven inside.”

“Coming in with the golden light
In the morning.
Coming in with the golden light
Is the New Man.”

“He's big and pink, and not like me.
He sees no light.
He sees no reason for the fighting…”

“You bring me so much joy
And then you bring me
More joy…”

“Somewhere in between
The waxing and the waning wave
Somewhere in between
What the song and the silence says
Somewhere in between
The ticking and the tocking clock
Somewhere in a dream between
Sleep and waking up
Somewhere in between
Breathing out and breathing in
Like twilight is neither night nor morning”

“Like it or not, we were built tough,
Because we're woman.”

“I want you as the dream,
Not the reality.
That clumsy good-bye kiss could fool me.
But looking back over my shoulder
at you happy without me.”

“Somehow this was it, I knew.
Maybe fate wants you dead, too:
We've come together in the very same room,
And I'm coming for you!”

“I said, mmh… yes,
But not yet, mmh… yes,
Mmh… Yes.”

“This is where I want to be.
This is what I need.
This is where I want to be,
But I know that this will never be mine.”

“Them heavy people hit me in a soft spot.
Them heavy people help me.”

“My excitement
Turns into fright.
All my words fade.
What am I gonna say?
Mustn't give the game away.”