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.”

“You can only guide children so far.”

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

“I was never a success.”

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

“I'm very happy to have people say I sound like Frank Sinatra.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Jimmy Van Heusen was a top security test pilot in World War II as well as being a great songwriter. He was absolutely incredible. Van Heusen inspired me to write music.”

“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.”

“I envy guys who can write funny.”

“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.”

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

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

“I just hope that people remember what I did well, that I gave it everything I had.”

“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.”