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If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.

— Irwin Thomas

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✓Similar Perspectives

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

— Dwayne Hickman

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

— Pia Zadora

When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.

— Andrea Bocelli

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

— Dan Hill

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

— Maya Rudolph

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

— Lauren Bacall

To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.

— Linda Ronstadt

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

— Jason Mantzoukas

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

— Kara DioGuardi

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've been fortunate that when Frank Sinatra was in concert, he would say, 'Here's a song by a wonderful young songwriter, Jimmy Webb,' and I'd be in the front row and stand up. That gets people talking about you.

— Jimmy Webb