America Quote by Tony Bennett

Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you had the…

— Tony Bennett

[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and radio.

— Robert Davi

Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it.…

— Willie Nelson

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

— Michael Bolton

I like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole and Dean Martin, who was my favorite, you know.

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music

— Aaron Neville

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

— Martin Fry

The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because Smokey Robinson…

— Diana Ross

I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they…

— Michael Bolton

I had to put me foot down with the first record company. It was about 1975, when singers were being given names like Gary…

— Chris Rea

I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country…

— Christian Kane

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

— James Darren