"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen"
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The emotional engine is that small admission: “I don’t know what made me go.” That’s not forgetfulness so much as reverence for intuition. She frames the decision as almost accidental, which makes the gratitude hit harder. We recognize the pattern: the moments that end up defining us rarely announce themselves. They look like a yes you almost didn’t say.
The subtext is companionship and witness. Sinatra isn’t just praising “two of the finest concerts”; she’s naming the privilege of being there when the U.S. chapter closed, when an artist’s relationship with an audience reached a final punctuation mark. It reads like someone protecting the memory from the noise of history: not “important,” not “iconic,” just personally undeniable.
Coming from a musician with her own cultural gravity, it also carries an insider’s authority. She’s not dazzled easily. That understatement turns the compliment into an elegy - a reminder that greatness often arrives without fanfare, then disappears on schedule.
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Sinatra, Nancy. (2026, January 14). His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/his-last-2-shows-in-the-us-were-in-chicago-and-st-151089/
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Sinatra, Nancy. "His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen." FixQuotes. January 14, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/his-last-2-shows-in-the-us-were-in-chicago-and-st-151089/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen." FixQuotes, 14 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/his-last-2-shows-in-the-us-were-in-chicago-and-st-151089/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
