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" I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard. "
Suzi Quatro
Refused
Wear
Wanted
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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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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Way
" I don't care what anyone says, but all children prefer their parents to be together. "
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" Inside, I feel 30ish - I'm childish and optimistic. "
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Inside
Childish
" Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also. "
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Jazz
Rock
Rock And Roll
" 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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Life
" Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde. "
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Joan
Biggest
Fans
" I always found the road exciting. I liked stinking hotels and freezing dressing rooms. "
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Dressing
Always
Hotels
" You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype. "
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Right
" 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
" 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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Marriage
Me
My Life
" 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. "
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Good
Think
Relationship
" I am the fourth of five children, and I can't remember a time with no babies in the house. "
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Remember
I Am
Children
" 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
" 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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I Am
Happy
Love
" 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
" 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'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. "
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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.' "
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" 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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You
" 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. "
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Heart
Broken
You
" 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
High School
" I've always maintained that you can be sexy with your clothes on. Sexier maybe. "
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" Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity. "
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Mediocrity
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Shows
" 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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" 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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