Keren Woodward Quotes

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Keren Woodward

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 2, 1961

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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I can't even compare ourselves with the Supremes. I adore the Supremes! I can't set myself up as comparison to people I'm in awe of.

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We were completely DIY and very opinionated. We weren't the type that sat back or do what we're told... We never listened to many people.

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We never realized how much of an influence we had.

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We've never been good at long-term plans.

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Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'

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The '80s don't seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we're off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000 people with a load of other '80s acts. It was just such a great era for music, for individuals and characters. It just had a spirit.

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Radio in the U.K. is so formulaic. You've got commercial stations who play the same 20 songs all day.

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I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.

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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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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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We didn't want to be famous. We just loved the music and excitement.

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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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When we go out, we do enjoy ourselves. We don't worry about whether or not people will recognize us.

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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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We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.

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The band is our whole lives and we are completely dedicated, but if you get too serious you'll have a lot of problems and if you don't enjoy what you are doing you shouldn't be doing it.

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We want people to enjoy our music.

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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 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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