Frank Sinatra Quotes (52 Quotes)


    I get an audience involved, personally involved, in a song because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately. I can't help myself, I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Dan.

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

    With each word, your tenderness grows, tearing my fears apart. And that laugh, that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart. Your lovely, with your smile so warm and your cheek so soft, there is nothing for me but to love you.


    The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.


    She never had an unkind word for Jack. And the time she stabbed him, it was an accident. She was in his office and she reached for the revolver, the knife slipped out.

    She considered Astaire far more pleasant than Kelly, whom she described as difficult ... as long as people did things his way.

    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.

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

    I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break his head. When I got older, I realized that you shouldn't do it that way. I realized that you've got to do it through education. Children are not to blame. It is the parents. How can a child know whether his playmate is an Italian, a Jew or Irish, unless the parents have discussed it in the privacy of their homes.



    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.

    If I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I'd now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

    You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.



    You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

    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.

    I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.




    As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public.

    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.

    I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.


    A man only appreciates happiness when he gets married, but by then it is too late.

    I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

    They were at the top of their game, the top of their pleasure period. I mean, they loved Vegas

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

    I didn't know much about Mabel because I was glued to the jazz musicians,

    Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me.

    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.

    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.

    Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

    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 over acute capacity for sadness as well as elation. I know what the cat wh.

    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.


    When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

    Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.

    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 instruments

    Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.

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

    And now the end is near; And so I face the final curtain, I'll state my case of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway, And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

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

    Too many times I've been asked to say something about friends who are gone - this is one of the hardest....Dean was my brother - not through blood, but through choice....He has been like the air I breathe - always there, always close by.

    You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

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

    a hand grenade will be thrown at Frank Sinatra sometime tonight during the show.


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