Frank Sinatra Jr. Quotes

Frank Sinatra Jr.

Profession : Singer

Birth : January 10, 1944

A lotta years I was out there on the road pulling one-nighters. Then I got hired to sing in Sam Donahue's band in 1963. I was 19 years old.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

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

Frank Sinatra Jr.

Look, as a child growing up it occurred to me that I had everything I could have wanted: a roof over my head, education, food. All of it because my father provided... My way of giving back was being that invisible guy. Giving something back from a lifetime of taking.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

I'm an individual.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

My father was the kind of man who liked to hang out.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

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.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

The recording companies are continuing to look at ways to buy short and sell long. So now they give recording deals to groups of people who we refer to as 'garage bands' - they are amateurs who are bought for nothing and it's really a shame.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

I envy guys who can write funny.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

In my own career, I used to do a Sinatra medley in every show, or at least sing one of his songs.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

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.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

This business of fame - when people ask me what it was like growing up in this famous family, I say, 'When you take it seriously you're in a lot of trouble.'

Frank Sinatra Jr.

Van Heusen understood Sinatra's style of singing; Sinatra understood Van Heusen's concept of melody.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

Since my father's death, a lot of people have made it clear that they're not ready to give up the music. For me, it's a big, fat gift. I get to sing with a big orchestra and get to sing orchestrations that will never be old.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

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.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

I was never a success.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

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

Frank Sinatra Jr.

I began to become very infatuated at the creation of my own music rather than someone else's and my piano teacher used to get really cross with me because of the fact that I wasn't studying my lessons, I was writing things of my own.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

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.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

I believe that when you keep yourself working, you keep yourself alive.

Frank Sinatra Jr.

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.

Frank Sinatra Jr.