Top 144 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Sinatra
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American singer Frank Sinatra.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
I'm for whatever gets you through the night.
I'm gonna live till I die.
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.
I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.
The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
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.
I am a thing of beauty.
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.
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
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.
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 gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Don't get even, get mad.
The best revenge is massive success.
Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
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.
For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.
Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.
In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.
Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.
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.
Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life - in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God.
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.
Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
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.
You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.
To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.
You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.
You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.
Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.
If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.
You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile.
Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.
You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.
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 respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.
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.
You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.
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.
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.
Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye.
What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.
[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.
Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.
A friend is never an imposition.
What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?
Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.
The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.
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