Frank Sinatra Quotes

“I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Dyin' is a pain in the ass.”

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

“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”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Here's to the confusion of our enemies!”

“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 simple I love you means more than money.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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”