Bananarama Quotes
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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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Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'
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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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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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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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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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Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.
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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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The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
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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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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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If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
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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 just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
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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.
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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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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 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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Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
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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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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.