23 Quotes by Wanda Jackson
- It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
- None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
- Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
- There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
- Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
- You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
- It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
- I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
- You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
- They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
- I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
- I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.
- If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
- As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.
- Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.
- And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
- I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
- I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
- I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
- I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
- I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
- If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
- But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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