"I don't know what other singers feel..." - Quote by Frank Sinatra
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.
More by Frank Sinatra
“Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.”
“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.”
“I'm for whatever gets you through the night.”
More on Emotion
“Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.”
“Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.”
“Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.”
More on Vulnerability
“Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.”
“Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.”
“I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and be welcome". Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him.”