Quotes from Frank Sinatra Jr.

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

Elvis Presley was rock 'n' roll, I thought that was pretty mediocre. But since that time, the succeeding steps in music has been down, just more degradation. Then we got into punk rock, and now we are into rap music, which is a total oxymoron.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.

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.

There is no demand for Frank Sinatra Jr. records. There never has been.

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