Wanda Jackson Quotes

I love the '40s. I love the '50s. I love the style, I love the clothes. I love how the women looked. I love the dances. I love the music. I love the amber of the light. I'm just in love with the cars. I'm in love with all of it.

I love the silhouettes of the '50s that were feminine and womanly without being too revealing. I've always gravitated towards that kind of sense of style and fashion.

I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.

I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.

I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.

I fell in love with '50s hot-rod, pinup-girl culture.

I'm more a 1950s hourglass shape.

I always felt it was weird, that retro thing where guys showed up in zoot suits and tried to talk as if they were from some other time.

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

I liked wearing the '50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such.

My personal style is a big mix. A lot of it's pretty vintage. I love vintage looks. I'm obsessed with the mid '60s era, even '70s, it was a good era for clothes, hair, music, and cars.

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique.

I like vintage a lot.

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.

Skating is now retro and hip.

I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can be traced back to the Fonz and Danny Zuko.

My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.

I was inspired by Billie Holliday, and I really liked Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las because she wore tight trousers and a waistcoat on top - she looked hot.

I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s.

The world loves the 1950s.

Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.

I don't like new cars; I'm into vintage cars - there's a Jaguar E-Type in the 'Goldie' video.