About Suzi Quatro: Susan Kay is an American born, British-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actress. She was the first female bass player to become a major rock star breaking a barrier to women's participation in rock music.
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.
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 m...
I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.
I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them ...
A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.
I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.
I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.
Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.
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.
I've always maintained that you can be sexy with your clothes on. Sexier maybe.
I was a me-ist. I believed in the right to do whatever I wanted to do regardless of gender. Still do.
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.
Bass guitar is the engine of the band.
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.
I always found the road exciting. I liked stinking hotels and freezing dressing rooms.
'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, ...
Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde.
Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.
I don't care what anyone says, but all children prefer their parents to be together.
Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.
