Keren Woodward Quotes
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We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.
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We had to pose with towels wrapped around us, holding rubber rings, that sort of thing. The turning point came when a photographer asked us to get on a fur rug and crawl like cats. We said no, because it was sexist and disrespectful.
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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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The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
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Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.
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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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You can be normal if you choose to be.
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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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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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Being paid to travel the world with your best mates, you really can't complain.
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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 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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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 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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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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When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.
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I'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.
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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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I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
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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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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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Thank god magazines like 'Heat' weren't around in our day. The thought of someone catching you unawares on a beach and publishing photos of your cellulite… it's so hurtful, causes so many problems.
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I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.