Bananarama Quotes
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I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.
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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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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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Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.
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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.
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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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When you've known someone for so long you never lose that friendship.
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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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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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A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.
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I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
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I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
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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 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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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 think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.
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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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You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.
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It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
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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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When we go out, we do enjoy ourselves. We don't worry about whether or not people will recognize us.
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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'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.