Bananarama Quotes
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Fashion goes round in circles.
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Being a woman is really crap.
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We were expected to smile and be flirty to everyone. But we acted more like a male rock band. We never mastered the niceties. We were more interested in having a good time.
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It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.
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But you're not really emotionally mature in your 20s. Well, we weren't. You don't say anything, you just bottle it up and then it builds up.
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I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.
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The amount of women we've met that say that we were an inspiration to them growing up, has always been one of the best things about being in the band.
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We were completely DIY and very opinionated. We weren't the type that sat back or do what we're told… We never listened to many people.
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The ‘80s don't seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we're off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000 people with a load of other ‘80s acts. It was just such a great era for music, for individuals and characters. It just had a spirit.
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Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.
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Everyone we knew was forming a band. Boy George, Wham! Sade. But it wasn't a big deal, they were our friends. It wasn't like we were hanging out with pop stars.
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Back in the day we didn't really have time to be a live act because we were always on TV or doing live interviews. We were being flown all over the world.
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I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
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We've never been good at long-term plans.
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If I look back on my life, you can almost tell the story of it through pop songs. Romances as a teenager, your first kiss, first love, first heartbreak.
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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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Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.
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We never thought of ourselves as a girl band. We dressed like blokes.
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I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.
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We've always been do-it-yourself. In that we've had complete control.
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There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.
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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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How we looked on TV was exactly how we looked during the day.
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You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe Back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world 'Cause when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell if you can break the spell Back in your own world.