"Its time that glamour came back, everything has got a little bit beige in the last two years, I say bring back black!"
Siobhan Maire Deirdre Fahey is an Irish singer whose vocal range is a light contralto. She was a founding member of the British girl group Bananarama, who have had ten top-10 hits including the US number one hit single "Venus". She later formed the musical act Shakespears Sister, who had a UK number one hit with the 1992 single "Stay". Fahey joined the other original members of Bananarama for a 20
"I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music … It has probably been the biggest relationship in my life. Its my fascination, my on-going passion. … I really, really love music. Im 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."
Siobhan Fahey"If this world is wearing thin And youre thinking of escape Ill go anywhere with you Just wrap me up in chains But if you try to go alone Dont think Ill understand (Stay) Stay with me"
Siobhan Fahey"I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together."
Siobhan Fahey"Youd better hope and pray That you make it safe back to your own world Youd better hope and pray That youll wake one day in your own world Because when you sleep at night They dont hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell If you can break the spell back in your own world."
Siobhan Fahey"I love digging out old records … Fashion goes round in circles."
Siobhan Fahey"Ive always tried not to take it too seriously — if you do, you dry up creatively, you turn into a product and it stymies you."
Siobhan Fahey"As long as you keep getting born, it’s okay to die sometimes."
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that theres free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
"History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles. When you go to Mexico City through space, you find it a sort of cross between modern Madrid and modern Chicago, with additions of its own; but if you go to Mexico City through history, back only 500 years, you will find it as distant as though it were on another planet: inhabited by cultivated barbarians, sensitive and cruel, highly organized and still in the Copper Age, a collection of startling, of unbelievable contrasts."
"As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually ‘thinking’ it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics—the model of all neo-positivistic thinking—lies in just this ‘intellectual economy.’ Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. … Reason … becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced."
"Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was still scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!"
"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all. (23)"