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Jackie DeShannon

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And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.


— Jackie DeShannon


#creative #just #people #sense #think

Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.


— Jackie DeShannon


#around #elvis #going #had #him

I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.


— Jackie DeShannon


#always #execute #i #i always #just

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.


— Jackie DeShannon


#fact #guitar #i #i can #in fact

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.


— Jackie DeShannon


#bergman #created #film #foreign #i

I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.


— Jackie DeShannon


#being #career #elvis #fan #far

I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.


— Jackie DeShannon


#artists #come #different #elvis #enough

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.


— Jackie DeShannon


#art #art school #because #deal #great

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.


— Jackie DeShannon


#big #blues #church #gospel #gospel music

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.


— Jackie DeShannon


#big #follow #go #how #i






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In 1974 Jackie DeShannon co-wrote "Queen of the Rodeo" and "Bette Davis Eyes" with Donna Weiss for her album New Arrangement. ) She appeared in the 1967 film C'mon Let's Live a Little with Bobby Vee as a folk singer. Armed with her new name Jackie DeShannon made the WLS Chicago radio survey with the single "Lonely Girl" in late 1960.

Jackie DeShannon (born August 21 1944—or more likely 1941) is an American singer-songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock 'n' roll period.

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