Frank Sinatra quotes

There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Men #Years #Missing

I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Sadness #Emotional #Elation

If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Dream #Guy #Sides

I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Song #Hurt #Pain

Orange is the happiest color.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Color #Orange

Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Song #Silly #Wonderful

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Song #Work #Careers

Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Attitude #Hats #Angle

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Inspirational #Family #Live Life

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
-- Frank Sinatra

#People #Luck #Important

The best revenge is massive success.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Inspirational #Life #Success

The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Light #Helping #Forget

Rock 'n' roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written, for the most part, by cretinous goons. And, by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration, and sly, lewd and in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... it manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Dirty #Mean #Smell

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Strong Women #Intelligent #Staring

The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Music #Ideas #Voice

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Music #Prayer #Night

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Birthday #Music #Voice

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Baby #Fear #Life Lesson

I'm for whatever gets you through the night
-- Frank Sinatra

#Funny #Witty #Humorous

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Cat #Secret #Goes On

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Holiday #Musical #Influence

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Faces #Foolish #Clown

If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Done #Laboratory

Who knows where the road will lead us Only a fool would say, But if you let me love you I'm sure to love you all the way.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Love #Fool #Let Me

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Music #Rocks #Expression

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Drinking #Beer #Men

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Music #Believe #Jazz

I'm gonna live till I die.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Music #Jazz

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Dames #Treats

Fresh air makes me throw up. I can't handle it. I'd rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Night #Air #Faces

You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.
-- Frank Sinatra

#You Only Live Once #Way #Enough

Fear is the enemy of logic.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Fear #Enemy #Logic

Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Practice #Alive #Staying Alive

Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Goodbye #Saying Goodbye #Vegas

....A simple I love you means more than money....
-- Frank Sinatra

#Love #Mean #Simple

Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are
-- Frank Sinatra

#Scar #Who You Are

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits ***** on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Sunday #Religion #Cash

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Teacher #Singers #Way

You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Ferrari #Lamborghini #Want

The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Blow #Records #Way

I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life -- in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God. But I don't believe in a personal God to whom I look for comfort or for a natural on the next roll of the dice.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Real #Believe #Mean

You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Play #Cards #Enough

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Way #Life Is

To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Motivation

The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Fine

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.
-- Frank Sinatra

#Happy Life #Dust #Pick Yourself Up