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.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Singing
Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Drinking, Alcohol
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
—Frank Sinatra
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.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Criticism
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.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Luck
You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad – if you’re indifferent, Endsville.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Audiences
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Ambition
Basically, I’m for anything that gets you through the night – be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Vice
The best revenge is massive success.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Revenge, One liners, Success & Failure
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.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Women
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Birthdays
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn’t be a staring contest.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Women
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.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Attention
The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Music
I’m gonna live till I die.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Death
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.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Family
You gotta love livin’, baby, ’cause dyin’ is a pain in the ass.
—Frank Sinatra
Topics: Death
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