Bananarama Quotes
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I was very aware as a young mum that I had to be there and not go off the rails. I would go clubbing, then come home and make breakfast for the baby.
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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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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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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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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 think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.
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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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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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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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It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
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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 think we've got the tracks that everyone wants to sing along to. A lot of people say, ‘God, I've forgotten you've had so many hits!'
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I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
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I've got greasy hair, what can I say?
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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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I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!
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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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You can be normal if you choose to be.
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If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
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After a few years, we realized that you did have to put some work into it. That's why the bimbo comments make me angry. After seven years, people have to realize we have a certain amount of talent.
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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 don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.