Wanda Jackson Quotes

Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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