KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Frankie Valli Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Frankie Valli

Showing 11-20 of 36 Quotes by Frankie Valli

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

~Frankie Valli

Topics: Along Contemporary Doing Knocks Off Really Socks Something Songs Unless

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I do belong to Jersey. There's no doubt about that in my mind. They have been so loyal and so good to me; how could I possibly belong any place else?

~Frankie Valli

Topics: About Any Been Belong Could Doubt Else Good How Jersey Loyal Me Mind No Doubt Place Possibly

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.

~Frankie Valli

Topics: Doing Ever Everything Felt Had Happened He His Impressions Instance Learned Life Like Listening Other People Sang Sinatra Sing Teach Them Things You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn't want to sing like that my whole life.

~Frankie Valli

Topics: Immediately Kind Knew Life Like Looking Make Mark Our Playing Radio Sing Songs Sound Want Wanted Were Who Whole You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or 'Sherry,' I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

~Frankie Valli

Topics: Able Always Any Believed Dylan Kind Should Sing Singer Song Wanted

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water.

~Frankie Valli

Topics: Another Any Apartment Car Close Eyes Family First Get Go Had Heat Hot Hot Water Late Like Lined Lived Remember Rooms Through Train Up Water Were Where You I Can 1930S

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Starting in my teens, I was always standing on the corner near our apartment singing harmony with friends. We'd also go to the park and sing under the bridge near the lake for the echo. When it was cold out, we'd stand in the little heated lobby in the project's administration building, where my mom paid the rent each month.

~Frankie Valli

Topics: Administration Also Always Apartment Bridge Building Cold Corner Each Echo Friends Go Harmony Heated Lake Little Lobby Mom Month Near Our Out Paid Park Project Rent Sing Singing Stand Standing Starting Teens Where

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


At school, I'd sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn't know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall was my Facebook. I'd hang out there to keep up with what was going on and to let people know where I could be reached if singing jobs came up.

~Frankie Valli

Topics: Bathroom Came Chamber Could Echo Facebook Get Going Groups Hall Hang How Jobs Keep Know Like Locker Locker Room Out People Pool Problem Professionally Reached Room School Sing Singing Started Up Where Which

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang 'My Mother's Eyes,' and she was knocked out.

~Frankie Valli

Topics: About Come Country Day Eyes Friend Had Home Jean Jersey Knocked Lived Living Me Mother New New Jersey Night One Day One Night Originally Out Performing Sang She Stage Still Texas Up Where

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there. They'd come out of high school, get a job, get married, have kids and die in Jersey. I wanted more.

~Frankie Valli

Topics: Become Come Die Fear Get Get Married Had High High School Jersey Job Just Kids Many Married More New New Jersey Out People School Seen So Many People Stagnant Stay Wanted

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: May 3rd, 1937

Links

Find Frankie Valli on Amazon

Related Authors

Kurt Cobain
Bob Dylan
Eminem
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Tupac Shakur
Frank Sinatra
Frank Zappa

Popular Authors

Ray Bradbury Vincent Van Gogh H. L. Mencken Jackie Robinson Thomas Sowell Linus Torvalds Louis Xiv William Butler Yeats

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Architecture Best Experience History Life Moving On Positive Valentine's Day