Wolfman Jack Quotes

#1. When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to radio.

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#2. California is where you get to start over.

Tracy Chevalier

#3. I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who's having a good time. You sure as hell don't want to be with somebody who's having a bad day.

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#4. Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.

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#5. I appreciate folks asking for my autograph.

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#6. I'm very rich - in friends. I'm too nice a fellow. I give most of my money away.

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#7. If you do right, everything will come out right.

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#8. I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

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#9. I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.

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#10. I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

Christopher McCandless

#11. Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

Dave Lombardo

#12. I've got that nice raspy sound.

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#13. Don't think about it. Do it. Don't talk about it. Do it.

Henry Rollins

#14. My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity.

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#15. I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again.

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#16. I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music.

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#17. Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.

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#18. John R. told me you don't work for the radio station. You work for the people out there.

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#19. Right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark

Tahereh Mafi

#20. My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.

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#21. I looked real Neanderthal. I could have been Mexican, I could have been black; I could have been anything.

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#22. I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that oldies type feeling. I want to put it all together and create a Top 40 of rhythm and blues and country and straight blues with Wolfman at the reins.

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#23. I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know.

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#24. From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.

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#25. Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

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#26. I think the acts today get too much money. I really do. They wind up blowing it all anyway. It's silly to give children that much money.

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#27. It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties.

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#28. Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.

John L. Lewis

#29. I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging.

Morris Chestnut

#30. I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.

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#31. We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

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#32. Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

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