Wanda Jackson Quotes

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can't be found on any instrument. That's like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world.

My singing voice is very specific to me. That's my natural voice when I sing.

I don't sound like other people. My voice isn't as loud and can't do certain things athletically.

To be good in playback, you need to modulate your voice and sing with an accent that can provide some freshness.

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.

I feel like the falsetto is my niche and my sound and something different.

My voice is not angel voice.

The fact is that everything I've done, no one else could do. I don't want to be cocky or arrogant or think I'm the best, but what I've tried to do all those years was to show I was different from the others. And that's not my opinion, but everyone's.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.

The beliefs that we use to define our own individuality, what makes us unique - good, bad, or indifferent - from other individuals.

I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.

I'm not what you call your basic intellectual.

I have the point that everybody essentially have these unique set of DNA you have. There's something different about you genetically. You are unique is what I am trying to say - the combination of experiences and emotions you have felt are never repeated.

And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.

No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.

a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...

I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.

Before you go into what is essentially a competition, you have to have that confidence. You have to ask yourself, "Are they looking for a guy my height? My age? I've got a shot." And if there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.

We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.