Quotes by Wanda Jackson

About Wanda Jackson:

Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 1960s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist. She is known to many as the "Queen of Rockabilly" (or "First Lady of Rockabilly").
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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.

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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.

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

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

Wanda Jackson

Author Bio

  • NameWanda Jackson
  • DescriptionAmerican singer
  • BornOctober 20, 1937
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Musician