Frank Sinatra Jr. Quotes

Frank Sinatra Jr.

Profession : Singer

Birth : January 10, 1944

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.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

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

Frank Sinatra Jr.

We went through rock 'n' roll, which then became just rock, then punk rock, then the worst disease of all - rap music. It's an oxymoron, because rap is not music.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

Nelson Riddle was really something. Just something else.

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.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

Before the State of Israel became a reality, Sinatra was a strong supporter, knowing that Jews were being denied access to the Holy Land. Sinatra met and had a friendship with Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Ben-Gurion gave Sinatra a beautiful Old Testament bible that was a proud possession that my father kept all his life.

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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.

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

Frank Sinatra Jr.

For a thoroughbred to age is never a graceful process.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

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

Frank Sinatra Jr.

I never felt that it was in anyone's best interest to be looked at differently by other people because of a name. I kept to myself a lot.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

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.

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When I was younger, sure, I wanted to have some degree of, shall we say, identity. But it never came.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

The way I see it, before I can sell an audience Frank Sr, I have to sell them Frank Jr first.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

By the end of Pop's life I wanted to give something back and when I came on board as his musical director he needed me. I wasn't the greatest conductor of the orchestra, but I was hired to conduct Frank Sinatra. He was slowing down, his memory wasn't what it had been. But his audience never stopped loving him. He had teleprompters.

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

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I wanted to be a composer.

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It pleases me that Frank Sinatra's music still has an audience, because many people who have come into the music world and then passed out of the music world are long since forgotten. He has been able to enjoy this great longevity.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

The idea of the duets albums was the people who joined Frank Sinatra in each song were themselves successful record artists, I never was. I felt a certain apprehension at the time that some people thought my being there was pure nepotism. I felt kind of out of place about that.

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I have to do what I have to do like everyone does.

Frank Sinatra Jr.