Keren Woodward Quotes
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A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.
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When you're in a band it's a 24/7 thing. If you don't get on or like each other things will fall apart very quickly, which is what it seems happened with Fifth Harmony.
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We were so young when we started, quite naive and shy - we kind of knew what we were doing but didn't because we hadn't been stage schooled.
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We got a gay following around the time we started using camp dancers who were stripped to the waist in cycling shorts and aviators.
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Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.
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The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
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You can be normal if you choose to be.
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Being paid to travel the world with your best mates, you really can't complain.
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I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.
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Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.
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We used to do 'Venus' live for a long time but never got 'round to recording it because people would always say it's too old-fashioned a song.
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We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.
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The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.
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We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'
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When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.
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It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.
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It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.
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I guess that people can't imagine three girls just getting up off the streets and making a career for themselves without someone to help them - which is what we did.
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I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
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We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.'
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We were always around music and we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time, knowing the right friends.
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I definitely think we paved the way for other girl groups. We did it very much on our own terms without kowtowing to all the men in the business or being told what to do by anyone. For that we feel very proud.
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The first time I got recognized in the Sates, it was by Mike Tyson. He sang ‘Cruel Summer' at us as we were walking out of the hotel to go to the beach.
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We had no money, and we had to go through 'punk' school. We ended up living in the rehearsal room that used to be the Sex Pistols rehearsal room at Malcolm McLaren's office. So we had this sort of interesting beginning.