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" I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry. "
Suzi Quatro
Door
Am
Been
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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. "
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Me
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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. "
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" I'm a bit of a wine snob and like a glass of Chateaux Margaux '82 with a meal or to unwind. "
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" It sounds corny, but I consider myself an old-fashioned entertainer. I could have been in variety. "
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Myself
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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. "
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Christmas
Birthday
" 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. "
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Know
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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. "
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Australia
Feeling
" The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours. "
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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. "
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You
Emotions
Good
" 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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Women
Change
Girl
" 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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Back
Rock
Way
" I was a me-ist. I believed in the right to do whatever I wanted to do regardless of gender. Still do. "
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Right
Gender
Whatever
" Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde. "
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Joan
Biggest
Fans
" The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour. "
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Colour
Band
You
" 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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Head
Guitar
Rude
" Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems. "
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Ways
Problems
Parted
" 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. "
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Matter
Me
" 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. "
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I Am
Day
" 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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Child
Time
People
" I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio. "
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America
Up
Size
" 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. "
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Ugly
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" Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty. "
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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?' "
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Doing
You
Time
" 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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Feeling
Impossible
Attention
" I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard. "
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Refused
Wear
Wanted
" 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. "
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Moving
Name
Band
" I am the fourth of five children, and I can't remember a time with no babies in the house. "
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Children
" I hate canceling anything, I'm 'the show must go on' mentality. If you can crawl, you can take the stage. "
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Anything
Hate
" 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. "
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Born
My Own
" 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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