100 Quotes by Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra, often referred to as "Ol' Blue Eyes," was an iconic American singer and entertainer whose velvety voice and charismatic stage presence made him a legend in the world of music. Sinatra's career spanned several decades, and his distinct vocal style set the standard for popular singing. From his early days as a member of the Rat Pack to his solo career, Sinatra's renditions of classic songs like "My Way" and "Fly Me to the Moon" became timeless anthems. His ability to convey deep emotions through his interpretations of lyrics, coupled with his undeniable charm, earned him legions of devoted fans. Sinatra's influence extended beyond music; he played a role in shaping popular culture and his involvement in political and social causes added to his complex legacy. His voice remains synonymous with a bygone era of elegance and sophistication, and his impact on the world of music and entertainment is immeasurable.
Frank Sinatra Quotes
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps (Meaning)
What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about? (Quote Meaning)
You've got to be livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. (Meaning)
You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. (Quote Meaning)
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.
Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.
You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough. (Meaning)
Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are
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. (Quote Meaning)
The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.
The best revenge is massive success. (Meaning)
You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile.
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.
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.
Orange is the happiest color. (Quote Meaning)
You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.
Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars. (Meaning)
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.
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine? You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. (Quote Meaning)
Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face. (Meaning)
Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.
The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way.
Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.
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 like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. (Quote Meaning)
And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain. (Meaning)
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.
Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye.
Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other.
If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.
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.
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.
For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock
When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.
A simple I love you means more than money. (Quote Meaning)
There are several things I think I would have done if I had the chance again. I would have been a little more patient about getting out into the world. I would have seen to it that I had a more formal education. I would have become an accomplished mu
Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
The best revenge is the massive success. (Meaning)
I'm gonna live till I die.
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions…I'm for decency—period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday—count me out.
The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me--that is Michael Jackson.
The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.
If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.
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.
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, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.
I'm for whatever gets you through the night (Quote Meaning)
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.
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. (Meaning)
Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.
I've always had a theory that whenever guys and gals start swinging, they begin to lose interest in conquering the world. They just want a comfortable pad and stereo and wheels, and their thoughts turn to the good things of life - not to war. They loosen up, they live and they're more apt to let live.
You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.
Fear is the enemy of logic.
Never yawn in front of a lady.
You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady. (Quote Meaning)
Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."
To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.
I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.
I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!
You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.
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.
What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?
I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace.
I am a thing of beauty.
To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.
For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you. (Meaning)
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.
Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It's all over. Good night.
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.
It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.
Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent. (Quote Meaning)
I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me.... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer.
If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.
A friend is never an imposition. (Meaning)
The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it.
Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.
There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.
Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.
I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal to achieve a plane you're looking for. But if you find that it's important enough, then you do it. You have to decide. Even when you figure you've given up a great deal to get a small amount of something, the pain is only there for a short time. It really goes away. Whatever the quandary, it leaves you.
I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.
With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.
It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.
I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.
I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.
Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.
What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.
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.
Now there's a grown-up swinging town.
It was a staggering moment when I first heard the news. Lennon was a most talented man and above all, a gentle soul. John and his colleagues set a high standard by which contemporary music continues to be measured.
If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York.
As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public.
For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.
Don't get even, get mad.
I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.
People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.
― Frank Sinatra Quotes
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