Keren Woodward Quotes
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The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
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We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.
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I'm actually quite proud of the fact that we made a success of ourselves in a donkey jacket and DMs, without any thought to sexualising what we were doing.
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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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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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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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My dad was fine, but I have to say my mum was upset when I said I was leaving home.
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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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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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When you've known someone for so long you never lose that friendship.
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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 find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
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We did 10 years of working and travelling constantly, and we were just knackered. I thought: 'I've got to take a break.' I felt like I was going mad. I decided to move to Cornwall.
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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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I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.
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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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Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.
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You can be normal if you choose to be.
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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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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'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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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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A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.