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" I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for. "
Suzi Quatro
Album
Myself
New
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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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Unwind
Wine
Like
" 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. "
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Looking
Age
Life
" You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype. "
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Believe
You
Right
" 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. "
Suzi Quatro
Myself
Character
Game
" 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
Time
Unique
Book
" I jog every day, but I haven't had plastic surgery - though that's not to say if one day I look in the mirror and go 'Ugh!' I won't have something done. "
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Say
Day
Done
" 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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Go
Anything
Hate
" 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. "
Suzi Quatro
Colour
Band
You
" 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. "
Suzi Quatro
I Am
Happy
Love
" 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. "
Suzi Quatro
Child
Time
People
" 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
Moving
Name
Band
" A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up. "
Suzi Quatro
Wood
Bass
Like
" 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
Doing
Incredible
Want
" I always found the road exciting. I liked stinking hotels and freezing dressing rooms. "
Suzi Quatro
Dressing
Always
Hotels
" 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
Doing
You
Time
" Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty. "
Suzi Quatro
Rock N Roll
Roll
Music
" I was a me-ist. I believed in the right to do whatever I wanted to do regardless of gender. Still do. "
Suzi Quatro
Right
Gender
Whatever
" 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. "
Suzi Quatro
Loved
Guitar
Feel
" 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. "
Suzi Quatro
America
Up
Size
" 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
Doors
Matter
Me
" Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also. "
Suzi Quatro
Jazz
Rock
Rock And Roll
" When punk picked up black leather, I put it down. "
Suzi Quatro
Up
Punk
Leather
" 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
Comeback
Impact
Mind
" I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard. "
Suzi Quatro
Refused
Wear
Wanted
" I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination. "
Suzi Quatro
Imagination
Been
Sexy
" Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde. "
Suzi Quatro
Joan
Biggest
Fans
" 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. "
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Great
Music
Big
" 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
Bass
Engine
Along
" 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. "
Suzi Quatro
Head
Guitar
Rude
" Do as many gigs as the good Lord sends. That's the only true training. "
Suzi Quatro
Lord
Many
Good