Frank Sinatra quotes:

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

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

The best revenge is massive success.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

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.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

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.

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.

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

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.

You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.

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.

Don't get even, get mad.

Orange is the happiest color.

That's life (that's life), I tell you I can't deny it I thought of quitting, baby, but my heart just ain't gonna buy it And if I didn't think it was worth one single try I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly

It was a staggering moment when I first heard the news. Lennon was a most talented man and above all, a gentle soul. John and his colleagues set a high standard by which contemporary music continues to be measured.

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.

And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.

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

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.

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 simple I love you means more than money....

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

Rock 'n' roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written, for the most part, by cretinous goons. And, by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration, and sly, lewd and in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... it manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

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.

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

Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.

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.

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.

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 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.

The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.

Who knows where the road will lead us Only a fool would say, But if you let me love you I'm sure to love you all the way.

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

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.

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing Each time I find myself flat on my face I pick myself up and get back in the race

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

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

[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

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

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

You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.

And if you should survive to 105 Look at all you'll derive out of being alive. Then here is the best part You have a head start If you are among the very young at heart.

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.

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

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

There are several things I think I would have done if I had the chance again. I would have been a little more patient about getting out into the world. I would have seen to it that I had a more formal education. I would have become an accomplished mu

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.

Don't hide your scars. They make you who you are

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

The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.

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

You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.

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.

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.

Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.

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

Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye.

The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way.

Fear is the enemy of logic.

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

Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.

I'm gonna live till I die.

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.

I'm for whatever gets you through the night

Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.

I've always had a theory that whenever guys and gals start swinging, they begin to lose interest in conquering the world. They just want a comfortable pad and stereo and wheels, and their thoughts turn to the good things of life - not to war. They loosen up, they live and they're more apt to let live.

The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.

I believe in you and me. 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. But I don't believe in a personal God to whom I look for comfort or for a natural on the next roll of the dice.

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.

At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.

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

You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It's all over. Good night.

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

To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.

Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."

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.

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

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.

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

Never yawn in front of a lady.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

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

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.

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

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps

I am a thing of beauty.

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?

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."

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

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

The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it.

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.

Here's to the confusion of our enemies!

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

I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm having trouble closing out a note so that it's almost as thin as a butter knife ... finish it out quietly like that." I said, "I have trouble doing that. What do you think I should do?" He said, "Justa close up your mouth." That's all he said, and I fell on the floor. I thought he was gonna give me a dissertation.

Should have a Ph.d. on the subject of women. Anyhow the fact of the matter is I've failed usually. I'm exceptionally enamored with women; I respect them. Yet, in the same way as all men, I don't comprehend them.

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

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

To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.

(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.

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

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

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

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.

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.