Frank Sinatra Quotes

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.

A friend is never an imposition.

Orange is the happiest color.

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

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

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.

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

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.

Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm gonna live till I die.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. I've been criticized on many, many occasions, because of - acquaintances, and what have you.

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

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

(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.

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Fear is the enemy of logic.

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

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.

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.

Look down - look down that lonesome roadBefore you travel on

You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

A simple I love you means more than money.

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.