Bananarama Quotes
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I can't even compare ourselves with the Supremes. I adore the Supremes! I can't set myself up as comparison to people I'm in awe of.
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Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'
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How we looked on TV was exactly how we looked during the day.
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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 have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.
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Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.
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I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
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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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Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
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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 still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.
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You can be normal if you choose to be.
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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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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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If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
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I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.
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I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
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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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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'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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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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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 signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.