Joe Carnahan Quotes

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.

It's not really a popular consensus to sing Sinatra - which I love! And I just think it's so cool that he disliked rock n' roll so much.

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.

I played on a few Frank Sinatra sessions.

I like Michael Buble.

To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

I like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole and Dean Martin, who was my favorite, you know.

I went with a friend to see Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas, in the last year that he was performing. He wasn't necessarily on top form, but the way he could connect with an audience and the way he communicated through the lyrics was something I hadn't ever really seen before.

I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

I love Frank Sinatra. He is one of my biggest all-time idols.

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.

All of the most popular music of the '30s and '40s were deeply informed by jazz.

Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by listening to jazz in the late 1940s and then vocal harmony groups like the Four Freshmen, the Modernaires and the Hi-Lo's. I loved Stan Kenton's big band - with those dark chords and musicians who could swing cool with individual sounds.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them.

At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

The duet with Frank Sinatra, 'What Now My Love,' is one of my favorites.