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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 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

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#exposure #fair #full #gives #great

Safe sex - with a condom, rubber gloves and a wet suit is fine as long as you don't fall in love. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#fall #fine #gloves #long #love

We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#advised #agenda #because #geniuses #just

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#always #artist #elvis #generosity #highly

I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#between #boxing #couple #developed #happen