Frankie Avalon Quotes

Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.

I'm a fan of all music, and probably my first - well, not the very first music I listened to, but back in the late fifties, when I first started hearing rock & roll, it was definitely tinged with doo wop and also Elvis and all those great songs.

There's so much nostalgia for music from the past.

Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger.'

Whatever had been on the radio in the '60s; I mean we were always listening to the radio.

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.

My favorite song as a boy was definitely 'Downtown' recorded by Petula Clark. I still love it! And the original cast recording of 'Gypsy'; I played my mother's cast recordings until there was no vinyl left.

We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '60s was so darn good, you've got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too... amazing records, amazing songs.

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

Believe it or not, I loved acid rock in college - and I still do.

The songs my band and I like to sing - the songs that the room will erupt for - are '90s hits, like 'All Star.'

I love music and songwriters from the '60s and '70s.

The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'

I've never written to a band since the Beatles. Since the Dave Clark Five!

I listen to old music, man.

I think I was born in the right era. But I missed out on some great music.

All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.

My uncles listened to rock and roll like Led Zeppelin. We had MTV, so I saw Adam Ant and Boy George and Def Leppard.

Before hip-hop existed, we were listening to soul songs from the '70s. I grew up with Motown, Elton John, and the Beatles. To me, that's good music.

I grew up listening to pop music with my dad in the car, and we'd just listen to Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Earth Wind & Fire, KC and the Sunshine Band - all that good stuff. So to see it snaking its way back around again is really exciting, and I love listening to the radio.