Kate Bush was feted on November 3 at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The effects of her Stranger Things-fueled resurgence have continued to grow her star amongst a new generation of music fans.
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If anything becomes clear while listening to Bush’s music, it’s that she is a singular voice. Moreover, it stands to reason that her thoughts outside the studio would be similarly unique. Find 10 of her best soundbites below.
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1. “I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn’t into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family–they still don’t use sarcasm.”
2. “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.'”
3. “The freedom you feel when you’re actually in control of your own music is fantastic.”
4. “I understand that people want to just listen to a track and put it on their iPod, and that’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with that, but why can’t that exist hand in hand with an album? They’re such different experiences.”
5. “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.”
6. “What I’ve tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else’s mind, like in Wuthering Heights.”
7. “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.”
8. “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.”
9. “The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.”
10. “I suppose 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.”
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