Everybody wants instant gratification for everything. It's all got to be like fast food. You want a hamburger now, you get it now. Hey, even when McDonald's started out, it took them a couple of minutes to make your burger and get it to you. Now, it's all wham, bam. That's tough enough on a burger. It's impossible with a relationship.

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I think todays music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

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avalon mean thinking

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

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president house people

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

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avalon periods fun

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

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dvds song kids

Well, we all age, but Id been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

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avalon age long

I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.

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honeymooners signing shows

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

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I was not a trained actor.

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actors

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

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teenager angel thinking

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

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musician two years

God's delay is not God's denial.

Frankie Avalon

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.

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you thank-you memories people

They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.

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look style singing song

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.

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never thought me song

I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.

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close-up head your you

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

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sing me week people

No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.

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seriously than movies take

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.

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

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everything run home today

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

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see know fans want