Frank Sinatra Quotes

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Dare to wear the foolish clown face.”

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

“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.”

“I'm gonna live till I die.”

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

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

“A friend is never an imposition.”

“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.”

“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 am a thing of beauty.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Fear is the enemy of logic.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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."”

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