Suzi X Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#2. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#3. I don't care what anyone says, but all children prefer their parents to be together. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#4. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#5. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#6. I'm not a great flyer. It's ironic, since I'm in showbiz and have to fly at least twice a week. I try to sleep and blot it out. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#7. It sounds corny, but I consider myself an old-fashioned entertainer. I could have been in variety. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#8. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#9. I hate canceling anything, I'm 'the show must go on' mentality. If you can crawl, you can take the stage. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#10. Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#11. Be honest, be kind, and share the love. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#12. I am the fourth of five children, and I can't remember a time with no babies in the house. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#13. Do as many gigs as the good Lord sends. That's the only true training. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#14. I've always maintained that you can be sexy with your clothes on. Sexier maybe. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#15. '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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#16. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#17. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#18. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#19. I did take some voiceover classes. I always loved the idea of doing a voice for a cartoon character. I just voiced the character of Suzi X in the upcoming 'The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.' - Author: Sheri Moon Zombie

#20. I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#21. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#22. Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#23. I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#24. I am busy touring all over Europe, Japan, and Australia. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#25. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#26. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#27. A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#28. The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car ... everything else is merely colours. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#29. But I do, little one. Your kisses last night told me everything, I needed to know. In every way that matters, no man has peeled back the many layers that make up the flower that is you, Laura, and dipped his tongue into the centre of you mouth, as I did last night. - Author: Suzi Love

#30. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#31. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#32. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro