Bananarama Quotes
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I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
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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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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 might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!
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I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.
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I don't really get that, when groups tour together or even do anything together when they hate each other.
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It never worked having a management style where someone would try to tell us what to do. It's never been the sort of group that we are.
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We want people to enjoy our music.
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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 we'd had a Svengali manager and done what we would have been told, maybe we would have had a bigger, more hugely successful career.
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When you've known someone for so long you never lose that friendship.
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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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When we go out, we do enjoy ourselves. We don't worry about whether or not people will recognize us.
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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've always written from personal experiences.
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We were very creative. There was nothing contrived about us. No one telling us what to do, what to wear, what to sing. We wrote our own material, chose our producers.
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We have never wrapped ourselves up in our own world thinking we are the only people who know what is doing. We listen to other things and see what we would like and what would suit us.
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That's what friendships are, isn't it? You don't all have to be the same, as long as you've all got the same sense of humor and same attitudes on life.
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We never realized how much of an influence we had.
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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've never been on a diet that lasted more than a day.
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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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We didn't know it was going to be a career - it was just a lot of fun. We were known as the bimbo band and never expected to last.
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When Siobhan left, we never fell out or had a huge argument. She just wanted to move to America and do something different.