George Strait Quotes

I like Michael Buble.

I played on a few Frank Sinatra sessions.

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.

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

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.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Big band music, to me, it really has three key elements. First is the lyrics are really sweet, and they're just really family-friendly. The second thing is the music is jazz music, so the music is complicated enough to hold your attention for 5 or 6 million plays. That makes the songs interesting. The last part is the fact that it's danceable.

I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.

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

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.

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 wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

Jazz is the American’s preferred music, and it is created by Negroes to satisfy their love of noise and to whet their sexual desires ...