Paul Anka
speaker
1,065 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Paul Anka’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Look, I admired guys like Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Jackie Wilson.
I looked at what they were doing, but I looked at it because they were writers.
Because when I started...
And the people I listened to that my parents played at home, they were pop singers, Perry Como, that whole group.
They weren't writers.
The guys that were writers were the ones that I admired because I realized kind of early in my career that
The only gravitas that I may have in the future is if I do what I feel I do best.
And that was a writer.
I had this squeaky little voice.
Nobody wanted to help me.
So I just started writing.
But I admired the guys that wrote because I figured out there'd be no business, no record companies, no managers.
No agents, nothing if the writer wasn't in first place.
The writer was what's important for all of us.
Look, look what you did.
You were writing all that stuff.
You could never do what you did if you weren't the writer.
When I sat with the Beatles in Europe when I first met them, all they talked about with me is, oh, we want to write like you're doing and publish and blah, blah, blah.
And, you know, they were a cover band.
when I saw them.
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