Wanda Jackson Quotes (41 Quotes)

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

You could hear a song, and if you didn't like it, well, you didn't listen to it.

There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.

They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.

Again, I feel like the Lord has just caused it to happen more publicity than I've ever gotten in my life, the last fifteen, twenty years.

Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.

It would take them three days to tape a thirty minute show, and you just got so worn out, you did it however they wanted, just to get it over with.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

They don't like their generation's music, so they find some that they do like

Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

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.

I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

The young people at the shows are all singing them right along with me, so I know that they have the records, they're bringing 'em out for me to sign.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

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.

I'd been working with Elvis, but I just recorded Country, so he, definitely, like you said, encouraged me to try it, but I didn't, right then.

It's not available in America, we don't have a distribution company or a label yet, but in Denmark, at the first of the year, I recorded with a group called the Alligators.

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

Well, I didn't learn them I had to do them phonetically. But I've recorded in Dutch and Japanese, too.

You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

I knew it was very big in Europe, I've been working over there for twelve years.

It would be nice to say that I planned all of this, that this was exactly what I'd planned, but it was just one of those things that happened.

On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

So, television wasn't really new to me.

It was a more innocent time too.

I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.

Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.