Bananarama Quotes
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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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We were always around music and we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time, knowing the right friends.
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I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
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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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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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A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.
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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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The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
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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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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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The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.
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It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
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We wouldn't ever sit down and pretend that our friendship didn't fall apart back in the late ‘80s. It wasn't like there was a massive bust-up. We just drifted apart.
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Being paid to travel the world with your best mates, you really can't complain.
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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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The first time I got recognized in the Sates, it was by Mike Tyson. He sang ‘Cruel Summer' at us as we were walking out of the hotel to go to the beach.
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We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'
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It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.
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It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.
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I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.
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I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
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I've got greasy hair, what can I say?
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I'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.