Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by Keren Woodward - Page 2

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

We want people to enjoy our music.

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.

I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.

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

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

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

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

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.

We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'

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

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.

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.

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.

We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.

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.

We never realized how much of an influence we had.

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.

The group has always been based on friendship and a certain attitude.

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

Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.

It seems to me that most good protagonists are both clever and resourceful. They are intelligent and can fix things, both little and big. They can come up with inventive solutions others would never think of.