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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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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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 were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.
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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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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.
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We never thought of ourselves as a girl band. We dressed like blokes.
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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 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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The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
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If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.
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Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.
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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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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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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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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 just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
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I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
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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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When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.
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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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I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.
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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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We were always around music and we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time, knowing the right friends.