Frank Sinatra was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. His music spanned a variety of genres, including jazz, swing, and pop. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Frank Sinatra on life, love, friendship.
You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.
Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.
The best revenge is massive success.
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.
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are
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.
You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.
The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.
Frank Sinatra inspirational quote
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The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
The best revenge is massive success. — Frank Sinatra
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. — Frank Sinatra
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. — Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra Short Quotes
You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile.
Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.
Orange is the happiest color.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.
Dare to wear the foolish clown face.
And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.
The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.
I'm for whatever gets you through the night.
The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra Quotes About Life
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know. — Frank Sinatra
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 — Frank Sinatra
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 — Frank Sinatra
That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it. — Frank Sinatra
What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra Quotes About Love
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
A simple I love you means more than money. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy. But the Bible says love your enemy. — Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra Quotes About Music
Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. — Frank Sinatra
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, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth. — Frank Sinatra
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." — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. — Frank Sinatra
All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more. — Frank Sinatra
If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you. — Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra Famous Quotes And Sayings
The best revenge is massive success. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. — Frank Sinatra
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. — Frank Sinatra
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. — Frank Sinatra
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
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. — Frank Sinatra
[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again. — Frank Sinatra
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 — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
[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. — Frank Sinatra
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 — Frank Sinatra
You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady. — Frank Sinatra
Fear is the enemy of logic. — Frank Sinatra
I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack! — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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." — Frank Sinatra
Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture. — Frank Sinatra
A friend is never an imposition. — Frank Sinatra
Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people. — Frank Sinatra
Now there's a grown-up swinging town. — Frank Sinatra
I'm gonna live till I die. — Frank Sinatra
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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
If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard. — Frank Sinatra
Look down - look down that lonesome road
Before you travel on — Frank Sinatra
Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can. — Frank Sinatra
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
The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way. — Frank Sinatra
I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing. — Frank Sinatra
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 — Frank Sinatra
Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong. — Frank Sinatra
Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does. — Frank Sinatra
Never yawn in front of a lady. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. — Frank Sinatra
It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me. — Frank Sinatra
The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me--that is Michael Jackson. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
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. — Frank Sinatra
You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass. — Frank Sinatra
People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites. — Frank Sinatra
For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. — Frank Sinatra
If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York. — Frank Sinatra
As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public. — Frank Sinatra
Here's to the confusion of our enemies! — Frank Sinatra
You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough. — Frank Sinatra
Life Lessons by Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra taught us to never give up and to keep striving for success no matter what life throws at you.
He also showed us that it is important to stay humble and kind, even when you have achieved great success.
Lastly, he demonstrated that hard work and dedication can help you to achieve your dreams and reach your goals.
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