Anton du Beke Quotes

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

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.

Adele's voice is incredible. Chet Baker also has one of my favorite voices of all time, and so does Joni Mitchell. And Frank Black. Oh, and Stevie Nicks.

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

Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

I saw Sinatra many times. I saw him at Caesars. I saw him at the Sands.

I played on a few Frank Sinatra sessions.

The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics.

I like Michael Buble.

Some acts are tricky. Eartha Kitt was tricky in a wonderful, old-style way. She did yoga on the piano and put her hands over her ears when the other acts were on.

Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything.

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

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

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

I can hit baritone notes, and I can sing in the soprano range if I wanted to. I did this thing a long time ago where I did a duet with myself. I sound like two different people.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, actually, on cassette tapes.

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

Early '90s, I was big, big into Sinatra. I was in college. I was fascinated.

I don't have a great voice or even a good voice.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.

There are so many great singers out there.

I'm a fan boy when it comes to Michael Buble. He's just so good at 'it'. He's got a voice of this generation, but he's like a time capsule; he's got a voice that could have fit in anywhere over the last hundred years. It's stellar.

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