"I want to wake up in a..." - Quote by Frank Sinatra

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

“Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.”

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

“Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?”

“When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia.”

“Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.”

“New York is a sucked orange.”

“New York: A third-rate Babylon.”

“Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.”