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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I was very aware as a young mum that I had to be there and not go off the rails. I would go clubbing, then come home and make breakfast for the baby.
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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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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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We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.
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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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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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Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
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Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.
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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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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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If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
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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 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 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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You can be normal if you choose to be.
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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 consider the Stooges to be pop music.
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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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I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
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The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.