Frank Sinatra Quotes

Frank Sinatra feels plain-spoken and funny, sharing personal musings about life, desire and drinking.

68 quotes

1. What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

2. I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

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

4. Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

5. I'm not unmindful of a man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle.

6. There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. Remember, they were men of God who destroyed the educational treasures at Alexandria, who perpetrated the Inquisition in Spain, who burned the witches at Salem. Over 25,000 organized religions flourish on this planet, but the followers of each think all the others are miserably misguided and probably evil as well.

7. I'm for decency - period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday - cash me out.

8. If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.

9. I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

10. For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad ... but I could never find me a double hammock.

11. Fear is the enemy of logic.

12. The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

13. Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

14. All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.

15. Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.

16. Dean, How do you make a fruit cordial?

17. Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world - to an individual or to a nation.

18. As a parting remark, ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to leave you with one thought. If you happen to run into Dorothy Kilgallen, be sure you're in your car.

19. 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.

20. Get your hand off the suit, creep.

21. Here's to the confusion of our enemies!

22. I am a thing of beauty.

23. I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

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

25. I'm gonna live till I die.

26. Live every day like it's your last.

27. You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

28. Have you ever seen a Jew-jit-su?

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

30. I wanna talk to you about your drinking.

31. 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.

32. May you live to be 100, and the last voice you hear be mine.

33. Orange is the happiest color.

34. The best revenge is massive success.

35. They call you the count of Courvoisier!

36. They call you the Mafiosi of the Mash, the Boss of Booze!

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

38. And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain, I'll state my case of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway, And more, much more than this. I did it my way.

39. The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me--that is Michael Jackson.

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

41. Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

42. 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.

43. I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

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

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

46. Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

47. There have been many accolades uttered about Elvis' talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree with wholeheartedly. I shall miss him dearly as a friend. He was a warm, considerate and generous man.

48. 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.

49. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

50. [Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.

51. 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.

52. Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.

53. With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

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

55. I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.

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

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

58. 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.

59. 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.

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

61. 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.

62. (While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If your name is John Doe, and you work night and day doing things for your helpless neighbors, what you get for your effort is tired. So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe, and all of you who give of yourselves, to those who carry too big a burden to make it on their own, I want you to reach out and take your share of this...Because if I have earned it, so too have you.

63. I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.

64. 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.

65. A man doesn't know what hapiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

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

67. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe31. The best revenge is massive success.

68. 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.