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“With Milli Vanilli, we felt more like bimbos, the bimbos of the music industry, and we didn't want to be the bimbos anymore.”
“We really love our fans.”
“Nobody was keeping me away from black people. There just aren't many in Germany. Without anything to identify with, you grow up thinking maybe you're different and maybe not as good as everybody else.”
“I am a fan of Mick Jagger and the Stones.”
“We were seduced, we were abused and we felt very guilty.”
“You hear blacks are good in sports and good singers. But you don't hear about black lawyers or black politicians. I learned things later, but went through some hurt before I learned - before I had a better picture of black people and a better understanding of myself.”
“We are true singers but that maniac Frank Farian would never allow us to express ourselves.”
“Now bands have to sing live, now people watch who sings on the record, now people want to hear the real music and not just plastic bands anymore. So I think we changed the music business to a better, more honest way.”
“We went with the wrong attitude to America, too successful with a too big attitude. We were not really knowing how grateful we should be just to have the chance to even lip-sync a record and be exposed to five billion people worldwide.”
“If I'm nice, I get little bonbons; if I'm not nice, it's trouble.”
“We were living together in the projects, with two other musicians in Munich. We had nothing to eat, and we were unhappy. We wanted to be stars. And suddenly this guy gave us a chance, and we took it.”
“Everybody asks me if I sing on this record. Even my mother asks me. I am a very proud person and this is embarrassing.”
“When you're young, you don't like to feel different. If you're different, you feel alone.”
“We didn't want to receive the Grammy. We knew that we were going to get caught.”
“I knew right then and there, it was the beginning of the end for Milli Vanilli. When my voice got stuck in the computer, and it just kept repeating and repeating, I panicked. I didn't know what to do. I just ran off the stage.”
“We said to Frank Farian, 'You don't let us sing on the album. Don't do this anymore.' We don't want to live like this.”
“That's why I left Germany and went to L.A., that's why I hooked up with the lawyers, that's why I hooked up with a big management company - just to protect us, to keep the kind of image I could live with.”
“We're victims, and we're portrayed as crooks.”
“Suddenly, I was interesting to girls. I wasn't just a Kunta Kinte.”
“I warn the industry, they shouldn't underestimate the fact that Rob and Fab still have a lot of fans. And they should try to forgive us. Because we weren't bad for the music industry. We changed the music industry.”