Quotes by Frank Sinatra

“The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.”

“In terms of my singing I have sometimes been asked how it all began, and it’s usually been a little hard for me to set the story down in any continuous narrative. From the days of my childhood I’ve...”

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

“If I had as many love affairs as you've given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.”

“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.”

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

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

“If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.”

“I'm not unmindful of 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 Daniel's. But to me religion is a deeply person...”

“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 abso...”

“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.”

“Fear is the enemy of logic.”

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

“[On religion] I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.”

“There are certain artists who belong to all the people, everywhere, all the time. The list of singers, musicians, and poets must include David the harpist from the Old Testament, Aesop the Storytel...”

“I'll tell you who liked a laugh [He holds up a finger]. Frank Sinatra. [...] He was very nice, he became my friend, and he loved to laugh. But he never did many things that made you laugh.He was to...”

“For Sinatra, there was also an androgynous quality, which also makes the youth-middle age transformation interesting. There's also a certain innocence and vulnerability. Something special happened ...”

“I think Frank Sinatra was the most hated man of World War II, much more than Hitler.”

“It's Frank's world, we're all just livin' in it.”