Bananarama Quotes
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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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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 perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
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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 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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A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.
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When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.
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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 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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It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
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Being paid to travel the world with your best mates, you really can't complain.
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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 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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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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You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.
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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 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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I've got greasy hair, what can I say?
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I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.
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We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.'
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I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
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Thank god magazines like 'Heat' weren't around in our day. The thought of someone catching you unawares on a beach and publishing photos of your cellulite… it's so hurtful, causes so many problems.
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It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.