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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

Down, Him, Had, Impact

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.

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Week, Ironic, Least, Blot

'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.

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Got, Charts, Second, Portugal

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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Doing, Want, Incredible, Flirt

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.

- Suzi Quatro

Play, Big, Been, Keyboards

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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Drum, Note, Then, Keyboards

I'm one of those rare breed of rock n' rollers with a brain, probably because the brain's still intact.

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Brain, Rock, Still, Breed

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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Regret, Every Day, I Think, Pregnancy

Bass guitar is the engine of the band.

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Guitar, Band, Bass, Engine

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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My Life, Play, Doing, Strapped

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 Back, Over, Imagine, Flash

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.

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Own, TV, Ed Sullivan, Burst

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

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Ways, Musical, Parted

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.

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Singer, Brought, Turned, Seekers

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

Church, Some, Buy, Ice Cream

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, Musical, Dad, Chubby

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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Divided, Been, Equally, Orphan

Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.

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Answer, Shows, Lot, Applaud

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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Bass, Along, Engine, Everything Else

Do as many gigs as the good Lord sends. That's the only true training.

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True, Only, Lord, Good Lord

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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Glass, Meal, Like, Unwind

I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.

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Door, Been, Flattered, Rockers

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

Hands, Still, Which, Fender

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.

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England, Some, Keyboard, Formed

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

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Always, Maybe, Sexier, Maintained

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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Good, Tell, Got, None

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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Roads, Miss, Grew, Malls

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

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Finger, Like, Bass, Wood

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, Show, Mentality, Crawl

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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Love, Big, Classical, Classical Music

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