Bananarama Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.
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I'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.
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The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
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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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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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Being paid to travel the world with your best mates, you really can't complain.
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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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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 really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.
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I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.
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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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We had no money, and we had to go through 'punk' school. We ended up living in the rehearsal room that used to be the Sex Pistols rehearsal room at Malcolm McLaren's office. So we had this sort of interesting beginning.
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I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
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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 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.