Wanda Jackson Quotes
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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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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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They don't like their generation's music, so they find some that they do like!
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As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.
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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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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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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.
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Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
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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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I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
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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.
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If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
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So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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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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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.