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Jazz was my first love.
- Frankie Valli
#First Love
#First
#Jazz
#Love
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
#Eyes
#Family
#Hot
#Remember
#Water
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
#Doubt
#Good
#Me
#Mind
#Place
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
#Bathroom
#Know
#People
#School
#Singing
It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.
- Frankie Valli
#Always
#Early
#Me
#Music
#Work
I have to believe that most people know that 'Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You' is my song. But the reaction we get from the audience at 'Jersey Boys' is that they didn't remember how many hits we had. A lot of 'Oh yeah, I forgot they did that song.' We had 20 Top 10 hits in the U.S... people forget.
- Frankie Valli
#Believe
#Eyes
#People
#Remember
#Song
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
#Life
#Looking
#Mark
#Radio
#Sound
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
#Bridge
#Building
#Harmony
#Mom
#Project
It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you.
- Frankie Valli
#Important
#People
#Radio
#Record
#Sound
I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we'd talk on the phone, and if I wasn't doing anything, I'd fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.
- Frankie Valli
#Doing
#Fly
#Friendship
#Memory
#Time
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
#Die
#Fear
#New
#People
#School
I think Lady Gaga is talented. Madonna is talented, and the flair that Michael Jackson had. He was talented! Whatever it is that they do, they must be doing something right. They do have an audience out there, so I respect that.
- Frankie Valli
#Audience
#Doing
#Lady
#Respect
#Right
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
#Day
#Eyes
#Home
#Me
#Night
You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.
- Frankie Valli
#Guy
#Neighborhood
#Out
#Take
#You
When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by listening to jazz in the late 1940s and then vocal harmony groups like the Four Freshmen, the Modernaires and the Hi-Lo's. I loved Stan Kenton's big band - with those dark chords and musicians who could swing cool with individual sounds.
- Frankie Valli
#Cool
#Dark
#Harmony
#Jazz
#Night
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