Robert Rinder Quotes

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

I don't use old music.

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

I listen to old music, man.

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.

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'd like to do a complete album of covers with no songs written after 1937.

I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type.

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.

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

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.

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 want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United States was so beautiful. Frank Sinatra, the Pied Pipers, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday. That's when popular music had deeper values, to me. This was music that was selling millions of records.

All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.

I think we all love the music we listened to as kids the most.

I have been told that my voice is very suited to oldies albums.

I love swing, jazz, blues, standards. I love the American songbook, Gershwin, Berlin. It's all that. So I'm born in the wrong era and I just don't fit into the 21st century at all.

I like a lot of older, '60s or '70s-style songwriting.

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

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

Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

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.