Wanda Jackson Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.