Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Wolfman Jack

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American entertainer Wolfman Jack.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Robert Weston Smith, known as Wolfman Jack, was an American disc jockey. Famous for his gravelly voice, he credited it for his success, saying, "It's kept meat and potatoes on the table for years for Wolfman and Wolfwoman. A couple of shots of whiskey helps it. I've got that nice raspy sound."

American - Entertainer | January 21, 1938 - July 1, 1995

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I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.

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I've got that nice raspy sound.

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Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business.

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I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music.

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We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

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It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties.

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I appreciate folks asking for my autograph.

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Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

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From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.

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The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life.

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A little mordida, here. A little mordida, there.

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If you do right, everything will come out right.

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Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

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I looked real Neanderthal. I could have been Mexican, I could have been black; I could have been anything.

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When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to radio.

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I'm very rich - in friends. I'm too nice a fellow. I give most of my money away.

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I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know.

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Kids like classic rock, and so do adults.

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I don't want people mistreating me. I found out when you're vulnerable and your heart's open, then people step on you. You're really stupid for letting that happen. And the only way to counteract that is to be like Wolfman Jack. Because if you do nice, kind things for people, then how are they going to mess you over?

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I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

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My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.

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I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again.

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I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that oldies type feeling. I want to put it all together and create a Top 40 of rhythm and blues and country and straight blues with Wolfman at the reins.

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I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.

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I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who's having a good time. You sure as hell don't want to be with somebody who's having a bad day.

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I think the acts today get too much money. I really do. They wind up blowing it all anyway. It's silly to give children that much money.

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John R. told me you don't work for the radio station. You work for the people out there.

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My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity.

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Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.

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I taught myself to tune in to another persons wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

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