Bananarama Quotes
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Being paid to travel the world with your best mates, you really can't complain.
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I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
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Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.
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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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I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.
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You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.
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I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
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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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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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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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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'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.
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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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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 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.