“I'd come home from school alone with those teenage blues and I'd put on Frank Sinatra's It was a very good year. Here was this mature man singing about the cycle of his life, and as a kid I felt the emotions of it already. It has since been a touchstone for me whenever I want to experiment musically.” MenWantInspirationalYearsHomeKidsSchoolFeltEmotionSingingVery GoodExperimentsCyclesMatureComing HomeFrankTeenageTouchstonesGood Years Author:Iggy Pop
“Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.” AbilitySingingEarsTheaterLatterFrankBoresParamountHysterical Author:Jack Gould
“I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.” WayTryingI CanWantedStrongMy OwnEmotionalTypeSingingAimThroatStomachFrankThrustWalkers Author:Panda Bear
“Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?” KnowsMenWorldTryingLittlesRealShowsRememberFilmGuyBlackWhiteSingingUnderstoodFrankTendernessBlack And WhiteShow MeReal Men Author:Chrissie Hynde
“Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the story you're telling.” PeopleBelieveSaidStoriesSingingGreat ThingsTunesFrank Author:Marc Almond
“I trained with a guy named Tito Gobbi, who was the Marlon Brando of the opera world. Tito Gobbi was the greatest singing baritone in the opera world and I studied in Florence, Firenze, with him. That was my first love, as it was Frank Sinatra's, oddly enough.” WorldFirstsEnoughGuySingingOperaFrankFirst LoveFlorenceBrandoBaritonesTito Author:Robert Davi
“The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at you - you felt Sinatra was singing to you. It's a very intimate art form, and that's what I responded to - the intimacy of his performance.” ArtFormFeltListeningSingingPerformancesIntimacyIntimateInterpretationFrank Author:Robert Davi
“I don't have a nice singing voice! Particularly if I've had a few beers, that's when I'll get up and go on the karaoke. I'll usually try to murder a Frank Sinatra song like 'My Way'. In my head I sound exactly like him, but when you watch the footage back, evidently not!” TryingSongNiceSingingMurderBeerFrank Author:Danny Miller