Quotes from Frank Sinatra Jr.

Rap is the pulsation given by some, usually an electronic rhythm section, without any tonality, and you have someone reading high-school poetry.

Never had a hit movie or hit TV show or hit record. I just had visions of doing the best quality of music. Now there is a place for me because Frank Sinatra is dead. They want me to play the music. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be noticed. The only satisfaction is that I do what I do well. That's the only lawful satisfaction.

I spend a lot of time visiting friends, watching video cassette movies, and things like that.

I think in my generation, when I came along in the early '60s, the type of music that was in vogue in society in those days had moved on to another kind of music. I was trying to sell antiques in a modern appliance store.

On the road I don't shave until the evening before I go out on stage.

I'd love to have my own T V. series so I could stay put for awhile.

Very few people rise that high, to be a performer known as only one name. Caruso... Valentino... Hitchcock... Garbo.

I'm just grateful to have a job. There are an awful lot of talented performers out there who are out of work.

Elvis Presley was rock 'n' roll, I thought that was pretty mediocre. But since that time, the succeeding steps in music has been down, just more degradation. Then we got into punk rock, and now we are into rap music, which is a total oxymoron.

If you don't work your brain turns to cheese.

I was with him, coincidentally, on the evening in 1979 when they had buried John Wayne. My father cried like a baby when he went to see the Duke.

Mo Ostin was a great money-maker, but he had the aesthetic interest of a fire plug.

I enjoy what I do so much. There's people out there who don't like what they do, but I'm fortunate. I have nothing to complain about.

I wanted to be a composer.

That's what I do: I'm a singer. I have many arrangers, but I usually conduct for myself.

It's not an easy task, believe me. How the hell do you replace Frank Sinatra? There's no way anybody can do that. But as far as I'm concerned, if there is music to be made and I have to wear somebody else's clothes, I can't think of anybody's I'd rather wear.

Heidi Fleiss I befriended because she and I went through something of the same nature. And when word reached the tabloids, bless their little hearts, they decided here was something they could make money with.

I'm a singer, not a talker I took singing lessons, not talking lessons.

Of course, it's human nature for people, when they meet me to have some preconceptions about how I look, how I sing, how I behave. I can understand that. And I've realized you can't do anything about human nature except to ignore it.

I know that somewhere deep down I have the ability to act. I just need a chance to prove it.

My son has no interest in music other than as a listener. He teaches English to Japanese students.

I think the dirtiest word in the English language is retirement. When you do that, you get old and you get sick and you die.

Over all these years, I have never had a hit movie, never had a hit television programme and never had a hit record. To my way of thinking, that means success has not been achieved. I have made no mark of my own creation. This is something to be considered.

My father never had to deal with a territory band.