Wanda Jackson Quotes

#1. I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.

Imelda May

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

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#3. What about you, Ian? Why don't you come too?
Can't. I'm Jewish.
You are not Jewish! You're Italian.
I was thinking of converting.

Terri Blackstock

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

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

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#6. He's a mean, mean man, but I love him all I can.

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

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

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#9. I think the game has opened up, and that's why I decided to come back and try to be a part of it.

Mario Lemieux

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

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

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

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#13. 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.

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

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#15. Though I lost you years ago, I dreamed you were here. That dream gave me the inspirational feeling that I could make it one more day.

Jon Jones

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

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

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

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#19. A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel myself worthy of such a wealth of opportunity?

Doris Lessing

#20. A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

Kim Edwards

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

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

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#23. I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

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

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#25. The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.

Naomi Wolf

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

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

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

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#29. The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.

Matt McGorry

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

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#31. I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, ...

Daniel Defoe

#32. Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.

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

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

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

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#36. 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.

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

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