Michael Bolton Quotes

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

I grew up listening to legends such as Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tony Bennett.

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

That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era.

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

The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Frankie Laine all topped the charts in the '50s. Load a playlist of rock n' roll royalty. You're spoilt for choice.

I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was.

My musical taste is somewhat dated - I mean, freeze frame, go back 60 years, and you're in my comfort zone.

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

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads.

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

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

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.

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

To have a body of work is a blessing - when you have songs that have been around generation after generation that they call timeless music, you can work that for a long time.

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 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.

I couldn't get away from the gramophone. It was the only thing that I ever really liked, and I was singing along by the time I was five years old - to the Modernaires and Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.

I go back to, like, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Elvis. I listen to everything.

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

I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.