Top 33 Frankie Avalon Quotes

If you watch ‘American Idol,’ and you close your eyes, you don’t know who’s singing because they all sound exactly alike.

My mother never threw anything out. If there was a sliver of a tomato, it was in the refridge. I would come in with my friends, and Mom would say, ‘Want something to eat?’ In 20 minutes, there was four, five dishes to eat.

I think about growing up back in Philly. It was about friendship with the guys and having a distant crush on some gal. And when you finally got the nerve to take her out on a date, you went to her parents’ house with a shine on your shoes, took her to the movies, and got her home nice and early.

I never thought that ‘Grease’ would be a smash. I turned it down at first.

If I go to a restaurant, or if I’m at an airport and people recognize me, it amazes me that most of them know me from ‘Grease.’

I think today’s music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.

These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run.

I guess I’ve maintained my hair. I’m like a Donald Trump. I have a good, solid head of hair, and that’s been my trademark all these years.

I’ve got eight children, 10 grandkids. I have friends over all the time, and I like to cook.

I definitely remember doing ‘The Alamo’ with John Wayne and Lawrence Harvey and Linda Cristal. We’d work six days a week, and then John Wayne would invite us down to a little place in Texas called Del Rio, and we would break bread and have some wine and tell stories.

I like to be busy.

I was trying to become a legitimate trumpet player, and I had a scholarship to Eastman School of Music. I was really on my way. But I didn’t take the scholarship. I got sidetracked, because when summers came around, I started playing with a rock-and-roll band.

I was not a trained actor.

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

I’ll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.

I’ve been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

It’s a wonderful thing to be stopped by people, to be recognized, to have somebody come up and say, ‘Thank you for all the wonderful memories, for everything… ‘ Those are compliments you can’t imagine.

When I was kid, my uncle had a grocery store. I remember the smell of the sawdust on the floor.

When the Beatles came in, I really concentrated on making a lot of movies. Those beach films that we did were a lot fun. They hit with an audience that related to what we were trying to do on the screen. That kept me going all through that Beatle period.

Yes, but I don’t think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

For me, the biggest successes I’ve ever had were the ones I never counted on. I never thought my first big record would be a hit. I thought it was an average song.

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray’s Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.

When I was a kid, we’d go crabbing, as a lot of folks do on the East Coast, and we’d catch some fresh crabs and take it home, and Mom would turn it into this unbelievable crab gravy – or, as they say, sauce.

I love Billy Joel’s music, but let’s put it this way – I think this is a frustrated, ugly man.

The kids have all seen it on DVD or videotape.

I studied with Seymour Rosenfeld, who was first trumpeter of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

It captures a lot of the spirit of the ’50s.

Well, we all age, but I’d been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

They weren’t great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.

I still have the tradition of Sunday dinners at my house, and I make all kinds of different Italian foods, and there’s a lot of fun going on.

I eat pasta every day. It gives me energy. I love the taste.

I’m not a chef: I’m a cook.