Bananarama Quotes
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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 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 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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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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A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.
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I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
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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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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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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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If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
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The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
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It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
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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 just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
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You can be normal if you choose to be.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.