Bananarama Quotes
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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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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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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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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 never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
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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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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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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 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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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 can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
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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 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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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 find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
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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 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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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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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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You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.
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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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I've got greasy hair, what can I say?