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I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Bottom
Entertaining
Toes
Love People Know
Love People Real
Communicating
Entertaining People
Real Artist
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I've seen it [Australia] go from a lot of small towns to big towns, but I think it has found its identity in all this time... it's a very special country, I could easily live here.
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Australia
Country
Thinking
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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.
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Glam
Leather
Makeup
Myself Always Never
Plain
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As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.
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Respect
Artist
Deserve
Recognition
Thinking
Received
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I've got a quick mouth, and I set my boundaries. Nothing ever happened that I couldn't handle. Once when a guy came on stage making rude gestures, I hit him over the head with my guitar.
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Boundaries
Gestures
Handle
Mouth
Quick
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Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Flash
Looking Back
Barrier
Improved
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The bass and drums are the engine, and the key to good bass playing is it's not what you play, it's what you DON'T play that counts. You leave the spaces, they're more important than anything.
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Space
Keys
Play
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There are things you're supposed to learn in life. My biggest regret was terminating a pregnancy when I was about 18. Every day, I think about who that baby would be now; it still makes me sad.
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Pregnancy
Regret
Life Sad Me
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After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
England
Moving
Names
Years
Eventually
Formed
Replacement
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This is just the way it goes: there's always a cycle with music - it goes up and it goes down, it goes risque and it goes back, it goes loud then it goes soft, then it goes rock and it goes pop.
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Loud
Music Always Way
Cycle
Music Way Always
Rock
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I don't really think about male and female; if something's right for me, it's right for me, and it doesn't matter what it is - maybe that's what it took for me, a woman, to break down the doors.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Doors
Male
The Doors
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Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Relationship
Broken
Heart
My Own
Retreat
Safety
Anyone
Area
Call
Case
Wrong
Even Now
Goes
Heart Broken
Learns
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Fingers
Golden
Golden Rule
Plenty
The Golden Rule
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I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.
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Precision
Fender
Wood
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I'd always been insecure. Being the fourth of five kids means attention is divided five ways, and to do this equally is impossible. I grew up feeling like the little orphan in the family, the one who didn't fit in.
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Divided
Fourth
Insecure
Orphan
Equally
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Feet
Gigs
Interviews
My Time
Touched
Unique
Lots
Appearances
Wild
Ground
Images
Recording
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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.
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Book
Crazy
Writing
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I never wanted to model myself on a female singer, which tells you a lot about my character. I didn't have a female role model. There just wasn't anybody around. I played with the boys and beat them at their own game.
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Role Model
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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.
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Change Women World
Big Thing
Change The World
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Sister
Cradle
Kind
Nancy
Pleasure
Seekers
Singers
Writing
Younger Sister
Younger
Aside
Concentrated
Singer
Instrument
Lead Singer
Material
Stepped
Turned
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I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the 68 Comeback Special.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Impact
Mind
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My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis Presley burst on to the screen, singing 'Don't Be Cruel,' I felt my first sexual thrill, though I didn't know what it was at the time.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Ambition
Born
Five
Musical
My Own
Singing
Thrill
Tv
Burst
Cruel
Elvis
Sexual
Screen
Sullivan
Though
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I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the '68 Comeback Special.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Comeback
Leather
Man Mind Me
Elvis
Huge Impact
Occurred
Wore
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Ever since I was a child, I've just had this sense that I'm connected to the spiritual world. I thought everyone else felt the same way. I can hear voices - not all the time - but when I'm with certain people, it sometimes comes through.
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Time World People
Everyone Else
Spiritual World
Voices
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Score
Good Money Myself
Occupied
Travelling
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There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Marriage
Crossroads
Died
Leather
Life Together Me
Apart
Constrained
Rest
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Even though my first marriage broke up, I'd say that I've had two good marriages and two good men. I've been very lucky. I like to think it's karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 per cent. I'm straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Marriage
Relationship
Broke
Lucky
Cent
Good Men
Per
Straight
Marriages
Though
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When I was seven, I decided to buy all my friends some ice cream, but the problem was where to get the money. Sneaking into church, I went to the side of the altar where you can light a candle for your loved ones and took the money from the collection boxes.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Boxes
Candle
Church
Cream
Decided
Ice
Ice Cream
Light
Loved Ones
Problem
Seven
Collection
All My Friends
Altar
Side
Buy
Loved
Sneaking
Took
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Motown
Classical
Hits
Instrument
James
Mainly
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Fitness
Instruments
Jagger
Leather
Performing
Aerobic
Heaviest
Lights
Mick Jagger
Tell
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'Rolling Stone,' my first single, was only a hit in Portugal, but when we recorded my second single, 'Can The Can,' I got that hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck feeling, and I knew it would be huge. It topped the charts in the U.K. and Australia in 1973, and I got my first gold disc.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Australia
Gold
Portugal
Rolling
Charts
Disc
Rolling Stone
Stone
Topped
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I'm totally active. I am just this side of hyper. I jog and go to the gym every day. When I'm on the computer, I'm reading, I'm writing, I'm never quiet. My brain is very rarely not engaged. Every now and again I will fall asleep under the parasol in the sun, but that's a rarity.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Active
Brain
Computer
Engaged
Fall
Gym
Hyper
Quiet
Reading
Sun
Totally
Asleep
Jog
Rarely
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I haven't talked to any young artists for a long time. But if we did sit down, I'd definitely tell them my viewpoint. If it was Lady Gaga, I'd say: 'You're talented, and you've obviously got the goods... what the hell are you doing with your image? How can anyone take you serious?'
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Gaga
Goods
Long Time
Serious
Time Your Long
Artists
Time Long Your
Definitely
Talented
Time Hell Long
Lady
Lady Gaga
Obviously
Talked
Viewpoint
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Quality
Intuition
Percent
Special
Turns
Life Good Always
Life Good Quality
Tap
Emotions
Number
Good Reason
Straight
Suppose
Meet
My Number One
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Birthday
Christmas
Husband
Models
Originals
Sunglasses
Wall
More
Then
Had
Around
Getting
Gifts
Goes
Got
Outfit
Pair
Pick
Than
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I joined an all-girl band in Detroit and, although I was a pianist and drummer, I was asked to play bass because no one else wanted to. When I strapped it on, it fit me as good as my leathers. At the first gig we played, I looked out at the audience and thought, 'This is what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my life.'
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Detroit
Drummer
Pianist
Life Good Me
Although
Asked
Gig
Joined
Looked
Strapped
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I was raised in a musical family - 5 girls and 1 boy - so all of us girls don't do gender. We were all made to believe that we could do anything we wanted and so we did. One of my early bands was with my sisters. I didn't really come across a lot of problems because I just didn't see it. I took myself seriously and so everyone else did too - this is my mantra.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Believe
Boys
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What stood me in good stead was my upbringing. I had a musician father, a very religious mother who totally supported us. My mom gave me my moral code which, even if I was bad, I wasn't bad for very long. If you're born and raised Catholic, it stays with you a lifetime. It's a good thing to have. My dad gave me a very professional attitude to the music business, and for that I thank them 100%.
Suzi Quatro / Singer-Songwriter
Mom
Mother
Religious
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