Frank Sinatra Quotes

Here's to the confusion of our enemies!

I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!

To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.

Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are

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.

That's life (that's life), that's what all the people sayYou're ridin' high in April, shot down in MayBut I know I'm gonna change that tuneWhen I'm back on top, back on top in June

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

Dyin' is a pain in the ass.

You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.

At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.

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 play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.

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 want to wake up in a city that never sleeps

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

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 am a thing of beauty.

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.

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.

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

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.

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."

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women.

You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.