Frankie Valli Quotes

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

I just play the guitar and write songs.

I always been writing songs since I was, like, six. I was listening to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Frankie Laine and people like that. I was just in the backyard writing songs.

Puerto Rico's relationship with music is everything. It's an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.

Music is in my DNA!

I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music.

Writing is not work. In fact, there's nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow - radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat - I would still write songs.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

It doesn't take me long to write songs.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent.

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.