Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Sinatra Jr. - Page 2

If I can just continue to work and be at least requested to work, I consider that a victory.

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.

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.

My father never had to deal with a territory band.

When I was a kid in the 6th grade and first learned how to dance with a girl, we had a record called 'Shake Rattle and Roll,' made by a group called Bill Haley and His Comets: 'Get out in that kitchen and rattle them pots and pans.' It was all about mundane things.

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

I've been hanging around movie sets and recording studios since I can remember.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm just a traveling musician.

As a young singer, a record company wanted me to be a rock singer. I told them I couldn't because I didn't understand the music.

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

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

You can only guide children so far.

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

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.

My father is a really big man.

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

My work happens to be singing, and I love bringing great songs to the attention of my audiences.

There is a common misconception that when you're a singer working for a recording company you get to pick everything you're doing. Very few people have been accorded such a luxury.

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 have never been a person to build empires.

It's regrettable that some people have to make a substantial living at others' expense.

When you're the son of someone who is very famous and you enter the same business, you got to work three times as hard as anyone.

It's a learning experience to work with my father.

I don't think a man should be alone all his life. But I want to be ready for marriage I want it to be a lasting thing.

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

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.

I'm just an itinerant singer.

My father doesn't dislike all newsmen. He has many friends among them. The trouble is the ones who hate him make the headlines.

I don't really look for material with the idea it might make a hit record.

Frank Sinatra will go on forever.

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

I'm studying musical arts, all the way to composition. But I'm also studying theater arts, stage directing and acting.