Frank Sinatra Quotes

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac ... It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?

Ya gotta love livin', pally, cuz dyin's a pain in the ass!

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.

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm having trouble closing out a note so that it's almost as thin as a butter knife ... finish it out quietly like that." I said, "I have trouble doing that. What do you think I should do?" He said, "Justa close up your mouth." That's all he said, and I fell on the floor. I thought he was gonna give me a dissertation.

[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach ... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

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.

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

Orange is the happiest color.

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.

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.

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

That's life (that's life), I tell you I can't deny it
I thought of quitting, baby, but my heart just ain't gonna buy it
And if I didn't think it was worth one single try
I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly

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.

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

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.

A friend is never an imposition.

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.

I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

Regrets, I've had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.

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.

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

Way down among Brazilians. Coffee beans grow by the billions. So they've got to find those extra cups to fill. They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil

The best revenge is massive success.

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.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

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.

The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.

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.

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

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.

I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.

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

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 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.

All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.

That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.

Cock your hats, angles are attitudes

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.

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.

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.

Start spreading the news, I am leaving today.
I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.

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 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 who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.

I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps

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

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

Here's to the confusion of our enemies!

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

What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?

Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.

It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York.

Never yawn in front of a lady.

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

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

Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine
Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime
Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time
I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
Each time I find myself flat on my face
I pick myself up and get back in the race

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

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

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

(While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people ... If your name is John Doe, and you work night and day doing things for your helpless neighbors, what you get for your effort is tired. So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe, and all of you who give of yourselves, to those who carry too big a burden to make it on their own, I want you to reach out and take your share of this ... Because if I have earned it, so too have you.

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.

Dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.

....A simple I love you means more than money....

For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.

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.

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

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.

Don't get even, get mad.

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

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.

Fairy tales can come true
It can happen to you
If you're young at heart

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

Should have a Ph.d. on the subject of women. Anyhow the fact of the matter is I've failed usually. I'm exceptionally enamored with women; I respect them. Yet, in the same way as all men, I don't comprehend them.

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.

I am a thing of beauty.

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

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.

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.