Wanda Jackson Quotes
"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."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Career)
"None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in."
- Wanda Jackson
"On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Time, Country)
"Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Music, Generations, Right)
"So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Work, Life)
"There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Time, Today)
"Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit."
- Wanda Jackson
"You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma."
- Wanda Jackson
"It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Music, Popular)
"I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Friends)
"You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: People, Careers, Today)
"They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars."
- Wanda Jackson
"I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: America, Fans)
"I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch."
- Wanda Jackson
"If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Mind)
"As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Girls, Singing)
"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."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: People, Inspiration, Girls, Reason)
"And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: First)
"I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Listening)
"I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Language, Song, Titles)
"I have some of the old videos of my performances on it."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Old)
"I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Singing)
"I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: People, Saying)
"If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other."
- Wanda Jackson
"But, we didn't have all the media that we do today."
- Wanda Jackson
(Related: Media, Today)