Bananarama Quotes
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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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Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.
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We did 10 years of working and travelling constantly, and we were just knackered. I thought: 'I've got to take a break.' I felt like I was going mad. I decided to move to Cornwall.
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I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
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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 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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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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It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
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It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful.
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I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.
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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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If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
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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've got greasy hair, what can I say?
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When we go out, we do enjoy ourselves. We don't worry about whether or not people will recognize us.
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I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
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I just felt very young and unprepared. I didn't know anyone who'd been pregnant, and I didn't know anyone who'd had a baby. Because everyone around me didn't really get it, I just kept on as though nothing was happening, even though I was slightly scared and throwing up everywhere.
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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 can be normal if you choose to be.
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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 might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!
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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 don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.