Frank Sinatra Quotes

Fear is the enemy of logic.

Never yawn in front of a lady.

I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!

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

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 am a thing of beauty.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me.... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer.

A friend is never an imposition.

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

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.

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.

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

A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

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

It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.

I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

That's life (that's life), that's what all the people say You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May But I know I'm gonna change that tune When I'm back on top, back on top in June

For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help us tell the story.

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.

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

Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me.

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.

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

Here's to the confusion of our enemies!

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York.

As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public.

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

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps

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

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

For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.

Don't get even, get mad.

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

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

I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.

Look down - look down that lonesome road Before you travel on

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