Wanda Jackson famous quotes

03-19-2025

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

#Singing #Records
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

#Careers #Trying #Good Things
If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Nashville #Records #Coast
I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Watches #Stills #Performers
He's a mean, mean man, but I love him all I can.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Mean #I Love Him #Men
I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Animal #Rooms #Bears
But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Media #Today
On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Country #Rocks #Records
And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Firsts #Albums #Sweden
So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Nice #Inspired #Nice Day
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

#Girl #Inspiration #People
You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
-- Wanda Jackson

#California #Oklahoma #Heard
If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Writing #Mind #Easy
I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Jerry
I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Song #Numbers #Titles
I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
-- Wanda Jackson

#America #Fans #Realizing
I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Appreciate #People #Inspired
None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Guy #Other Guys #Band
Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
-- Wanda Jackson

#Wanted #Plans #Wells

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