Keren Woodward Quotes
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Radio in the U.K. is so formulaic. You've got commercial stations who play the same 20 songs all day.
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We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.
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Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.
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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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You can be normal if you choose to be.
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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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People thought we were intimidating, especially once we'd had a few drinks, but when I look back we were virtually on top of each other, holding hands. We sounded so stupid.
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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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My dad was fine, but I have to say my mum was upset when I said I was leaving home.
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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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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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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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The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
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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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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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Being paid to travel the world with your best mates, you really can't complain.
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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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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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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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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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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 wouldn't ever sit down and pretend that our friendship didn't fall apart back in the late ‘80s. It wasn't like there was a massive bust-up. We just drifted apart.
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I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.
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I've got greasy hair, what can I say?