Quotes from Frank Sinatra Jr.

When Sinatra was alive and singing, he was constantly changing orchestrators from one album to the next because he said he didn't want every record to sound like every other record.

Frank Sinatra will go on forever.

I mean, Frank Sinatra is one of the great performers in pop music history. Why shouldn't I be delighted to carry on his tradition?

Sinatra was bothered with issues of anti-Semitism and racism all his life. The song and film he made 'The House I Live In,' was a deep message against prejudice and he was very proud to have recorded the song.

There's only one Sinatra. But don't forget that there's only one Sinatra Jr., too.

Frank Sinatra Jr. has never been particularly popular as a record seller.

In the impetuousness of youth, when you're 21 years old, you want results yesterday.

Growing up in California, my best friend was Morris Rabinowitz and we often went to the Yiddish Theater.

I'm just a traveling musician.

When I was working at the Flamingo I took slides of people standing in front of the Flamingo with the highway behind them. Across the street you can see these tumbleweeds. That is now Caesars Palace.

I just try to fit into society the best I can. Be unobtrusive, be smooth. I don't want to hurt anybody, or be hurt.

When I was a young person, they used to refer to it as Christmas time. Course now it has to be politically correct and call it the holidays.

It depends on the material. Sometimes I sound like him, sometimes not. There are certain tunes we do that are so familiar to the audience that to perform them without making them sound like Frank Sinatra would be wrong.

Nelson Riddle was really something. Just something else.

When I started as a kid, I wanted to be a piano player and songwriter. I only became a singer by accident.

Originally, what we call rock 'n' roll was nothing more than an attempt of very bad white performers to sound like black rhythm-and-blues performers. They did their best to emulate, they did their best to paraphrase. And that started what later became rock 'n' roll.

The Beatles never got through to all ages, nor did Elvis Presley, or any of the other monuments of mediocrity that we've had.

I always loved the motion picture scores and the great film composers like Elmer Bernstein.

They used to have a saying among the musicians on staff when I was with him, 'Sinatra never does anything the same way once.' He was a perfectionist, he was a taskmaster and he knew exactly what it was he wanted because he understood how to deliver his message to the audience; never was there a greater example of that than that man.

Life is not positive or negative; it's a mixture.

When I work a nightclub, I dress up in evening wear. There's a certain elegance to it all and I like that.

KKJZ is a very famous jazz station and there aren't many more around like them.

The best way to get noticed is to take someone that everyone loves and admires and knock him.

Ever since I've been old enough to shave I've been playing clubs.