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Jackie DeShannon

"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."

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Akiroq Brost

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

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Akiroq Brost

"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."

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Akiroq Brost

"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

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Akiroq Brost

"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."

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Akiroq Brost

"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

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"I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning."

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"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."

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Akiroq Brost

"There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist."

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"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."

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"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."

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Jackie DeShannon
"Ignorance is kind of bliss."

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Jackie DeShannon
"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."

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Jackie DeShannon
"I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now."

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

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Jackie DeShannon
"No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs."

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Jackie DeShannon
"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."

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Jackie DeShannon
"There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts."

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Jackie DeShannon
"There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time."

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Jackie DeShannon
"And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young."

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Jackie DeShannon
"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."

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