A biography for Frank Sinatra Jr.hasn’t been written yet.
“On the road I don't shave until the evening before I go out on stage.”
“I'm just an itinerant singer.”
“Life is not positive or negative; it's a mixture.”
“For a thoroughbred to age is never a graceful process.”
“Frank Sinatra will go on forever.”
“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.”
“It's OK if people say I sound like Frank Sinatra. I just don't want them to think I am Frank Sinatra.”
“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.”
“The Beatles never got through to all ages, nor did Elvis Presley, or any of the other monuments of mediocrity that we've had.”
“Van Heusen understood Sinatra's style of singing; Sinatra understood Van Heusen's concept of melody.”
“The first time people come to see me, it's usually because they're curious. Then maybe some of them return. I look out in the audience and see the same faces, the same wonderful, loyal faces.”
“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.”
“Growing up in California, my best friend was Morris Rabinowitz and we often went to the Yiddish Theater.”
“My father never had to deal with a territory band.”
“Rock 'n' roll, for me, is another award for underachievers. It is nothing but a testament to mediocrity.”
“I'm an individual.”
“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.”
“When I was working at the Flamingo I took slides of people standing in front of the Flamingo with the highway behind them. Across the street you can see these tumbleweeds. That is now Caesars Palace.”
“If you don't work your brain turns to cheese.”
“It's regrettable that some people have to make a substantial living at others' expense.”