Brendon Urie Quotes

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

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

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

I like Michael Buble.

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.

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

There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasn't very hip.

I played on a lot of Sinatra sessions. He was simply awesome. He liked to laugh, and he could be one of the boys when he wanted. But he was also a very serious performer.

I played on a few Frank Sinatra sessions.

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

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

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.

Swing is my favorite kind of 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.

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.

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

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

I love classical jazz.

My father was a part of that generation, and my mother, too - the late-'30s, early-'40s big-band generation. Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey, Gene Krupa, Billie Holiday - all that stuff was in my background.

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

I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to.

For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

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.

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.

Nat King Cole was a really big influence.