Frank Sinatra Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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 SinatraSource : Interview with Joe Hyams, Playboy magazine, February 1963.
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“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.”
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“Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.”
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“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.”
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“I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.”
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“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.”
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“Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.”
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“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”
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“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
-- Frank SinatraSource : "The Way You Wear Your Hat". Book by Bill Zehme, 1997.
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“I'm for whatever gets you through the night”
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“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.”
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“It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.”
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“If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.”
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“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.”
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“Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.”
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“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
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“Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.”
-- Frank SinatraSource : Interview with Joe Hyams, reprints.longform.org. February 1963.
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“You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.”
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“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
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