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Top 25 Jackie DeShannon Quotes (2025 Update)

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “What the world needs now is love, sweet love.”

1. “What the world needs now is love, sweet love.”

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Jackie DeShannon Quote: “Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.”

2. “Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.”

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Jackie DeShannon Quote: “Ignorance is kind of bliss.”

3. “Ignorance is kind of bliss.”

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Jackie DeShannon Quote: “Lord, we don’t need another mountain.”

4. “Lord, we don’t need another mountain.”

— Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.”

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

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Jackie DeShannon Quote: “And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you’re just working all the time.”

8. “And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you’re just working all the time.”

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Jackie DeShannon Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it’s like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.”

11. “When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it’s like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.”

— Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.”

12. “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

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “I’ve always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I’m capable of.”

13. “I’ve always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I’m capable of.”

— Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.”

14. “And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.”

— Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “When I used to go to Elvis’s house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn’t go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.”

16. “When I used to go to Elvis’s house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn’t go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.”

— Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “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.”

17. “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 Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “I always went with my agenda, I just couldn’t execute it.”

19. “I always went with my agenda, I just couldn’t execute it.”

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Jackie DeShannon Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Jackie DeShannon Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.”

23. “When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.”

— Jackie DeShannon

Jackie DeShannon Quote: “I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.”

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

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Jackie DeShannon Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

— Jackie DeShannon

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