Suzi X Quotes & Sayings

Inside, I feel 30ish - I'm childish and optimistic. — Suzi Quatro

I'm a Scrabble nut, and I need something to do while I'm travelling. Scrabble keeps me occupied, I play against myself. I have a high score of 718 that I'm always trying to beat. I'm a good player. You don't want to play me for money, that's for sure. — Suzi Quatro

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

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also. — Suzi Quatro

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

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. — Suzi Quatro

I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for. — Suzi Quatro

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. — Suzi Quatro

Love is the best part of life — Suzi Quatro

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. — Suzi Quatro

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

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. — Suzi Quatro

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. — Suzi Quatro

Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin — Suzi Quatro

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

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

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

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

When punk picked up black leather, I put it down. — Suzi Quatro

Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty. — Suzi Quatro

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. — Suzi Quatro

Be honest, be kind, and share the love. — Suzi Quatro

I don't care what anyone says, but all children prefer their parents to be together. — Suzi Quatro

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. — Suzi Quatro

Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde. — Suzi Quatro

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

Seal the Deal, more than a traditional book, is a series of powerful coaching sessions dealing with a big breakdown that many excellent coaches and consultants face today: they don't know how to sell their services to organizations. Suzi Pomerantz not only knows, she can also coach us so we can learn that critical ability. — Julio Olalla

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up. — Suzi Quatro

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.' — Sheri Moon Zombie

Some changes occur suddenly like a brilliant flash of lightning striking across a dark sky. These changes are stunning, exciting but can be quickly forgotten. Other changes happen slowly, gradually, like a flower blooming in early spring, each day unfurling its petals another fraction of an inch towards the warm, nurturing sun. These changes are as inevitable as nature running its course; they're meant to be. — Suzi Davis

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. — Suzi Quatro

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. — Suzi Quatro