Quotes from Frankie Avalon

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

I was not a trained actor.

They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

God's delay is not God's denial.

I never thought that 'Grease' would be a smash. I turned it down at first.

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

I was trying to become a legitimate trumpet player, and I had a scholarship to Eastman School of Music. I was really on my way. But I didn't take the scholarship. I got sidetracked, because when summers came around, I started playing with a rock-and-roll band.

There have been a lot of memorable meals in my life and in my career.

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.

I love Billy Joel's music, but let's put it this way - I think this is a frustrated, ugly man.

When I was a kid, we'd go crabbing, as a lot of folks do on the East Coast, and we'd catch some fresh crabs and take it home, and Mom would turn it into this unbelievable crab gravy - or, as they say, sauce.

'Grease' is the most successful thing I've ever been part of. It spans generations.

When I was kid, my uncle had a grocery store. I remember the smell of the sawdust on the floor.

I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.

Well, we all age, but Id been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

I studied with Seymour Rosenfeld, who was first trumpeter of the Philadelphia Orchestra.