Quotes by Frank Sinatra, Jr.

I have said my philosophy -- I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess -- is that the dirtiest word in the English language is retirement.

I think in my generation, when I came along in the early '60s, the type of music that was in vogue in society in those days had moved on to another kind of music. I was trying to sell antiques in a modern appliance store.

Tony Bennett is still giving concerts, still singing. It's keeping him alive. He's in his late 80s now and he keeps going and going. I maintain, God bless him, it's this devotion to duty and working and being in front his audience.

This disease they call 'rap' -- some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

There was a time in medieval England when they had wandering minstrels ... A wandering minstrel would have been Frank Sinatra's counterpart had he lived during the time of Henry II in 1190 or 1180.

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.

Frank Sinatra was very devoted to what it was he did. At the end of his life, what he had left -- there have been accolades, mementos, festivals, superlatives, all that stuff. He's done movies, TV, done this, done that -- what he had left was a love of his audience, and that kept him alive.