Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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

Friends

Money

Candle

Related Quotes:

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

Suzi Quatro

Unwind

Wine

" I think like a man but have the emotions of a woman, and that's really dangerous. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Good

Life

" 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

Always

Fat

" 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. "

" Bass guitar is the engine of the band. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard. "

" 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. "

" 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

Size

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Be honest, be kind, and share the love. "

Suzi Quatro

Love

Be Kind

" 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

Been

" When punk picked up black leather, I put it down. "

Suzi Quatro

Punk

Leather

" Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty. "

" I hate canceling anything, I'm 'the show must go on' mentality. If you can crawl, you can take the stage. "

Suzi Quatro

Anything

Hate

" I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination. "

" I was a me-ist. I believed in the right to do whatever I wanted to do regardless of gender. Still do. "