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Suzi Quatro Quotes

You’re all right, as long as you don’t believe your own hype.

– Suzi Quatro

I was inspired by Billie Holliday, and I really liked Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las because she wore tight trousers and a waistcoat on top – she looked hot.

– Suzi Quatro

I am the fourth of five children, and I can’t remember a time with no babies in the house.

– Suzi Quatro

The golden rule for playing the bass is that’s it all about feel, not just plonking away. You need to feel the sound, not using a pick or a plectrum – which has meant plenty of calluses on my fingers.

– Suzi Quatro

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

– Suzi Quatro

I’m one of those rare breed of rock n’ rollers with a brain, probably because the brain’s still intact.

– Suzi Quatro

I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for.

– Suzi Quatro

My feet never touched the ground. Lots of good groups with crazy and unique images. It was wild. I spent all of my time doing gigs, TV appearances, interviews, or recording. I could write a book – and probably will.

– Suzi Quatro

I always found the road exciting. I liked stinking hotels and freezing dressing rooms.

– Suzi Quatro

I just couldn’t get into the high school scene at all. I was fat, ugly and weird. I just couldn’t do the makeup and the hairdos.

– Suzi Quatro

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.

– Suzi Quatro

Be honest, be kind, and share the love.

– Suzi Quatro

I’m a Scrabble nut, and I need something to do while I’m travelling. Scrabble keeps me occupied, I play against myself. I have a high score of 718 that I’m always trying to beat. I’m a good player. You don’t want to play me for money, that’s for sure.

– Suzi Quatro

As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I’ve got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I’m a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there.

– Suzi Quatro

I didn’t think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn’t change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I’m a real independent girl.

– Suzi Quatro

One of my insecurities was my looks. I was short, cute and chubby, and Dad used to call me his ‘little fat sausage.’ But I always knew I had musical talent.

– Suzi Quatro

It sounds corny, but I consider myself an old-fashioned entertainer. I could have been in variety.

– Suzi Quatro

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

– Suzi Quatro

I’ve always maintained that you can be sexy with your clothes on. Sexier maybe.

– Suzi Quatro

I can feel things – tap into emotions. When I meet a new person, I know their life straight away. I suppose you could call it a special intuition, but it’s my number one quality, and I’m always 99.9 percent right. If I don’t like someone, it always turns out to be for a good reason.

– Suzi Quatro

I never, ever saw myself as glam because I didn’t wear makeup… my image is a plain leather jumpsuit, which is not glam at all. I’ve always seen myself as rock n’ roll and not glam.

– Suzi Quatro

I’ve got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them for me as birthday and Christmas gifts.

– Suzi Quatro

I’m told I’m an incredible flirt because I don’t know I’m doing it. I don’t want to even analyse it, but I seduce people, apparently; I suck them in.

– Suzi Quatro

I would like to live forever in people’s hearts and minds; that would be fun. I’ll leave the world my art.

– Suzi Quatro

The bass player’s function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car… everything else is merely colours.

– Suzi Quatro

I’m not a great flyer. It’s ironic, since I’m in showbiz and have to fly at least twice a week. I try to sleep and blot it out.

– Suzi Quatro

I’m a bit of a wine snob and like a glass of Chateaux Margaux ’82 with a meal or to unwind.

– Suzi Quatro

I don’t care what anyone says, but all children prefer their parents to be together.

– Suzi Quatro

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

– Suzi Quatro

Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the amazing bass guitar of James Jamerson, who played on all the big Motown hits of the ’60s and ’70s, I knew bass guitar was my instrument.

– Suzi Quatro

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