Frank Sinatra Quotes

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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”

“I'm gonna live till I die.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“I'm for whatever gets you through the night.”

“Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.”

“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.”

“Now there's a grown-up swinging town.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Orange is the happiest color.”

“A friend is never an imposition.”

“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.”