65 Frank Sinatra Quotes About Love, Life, Music, Songs
Francis Albert 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. These Frank Sinatra quotes will motivate you in life.
Best Frank Sinatra Quotes
- “Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “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.” ~ Frank Sinatra
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“You only live once, and the way I live once is enough.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are” ~ 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
- “Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.” ~ 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
- “Don’t respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.” ~ Frank Sinatra
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“You better get busy living, because dying’s a pain in the ass.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “If you possess something but you can’t give it away, then you don’t possess it… it possesses you.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “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
- “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
- “The best is yet to come and won’t that be fine.” ~ Frank Sinatra
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“You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “You’ve either got or you haven’t got style, and if you’ve got it you stand out a mile.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “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 , Frank Sinatra quotes about love - “You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.” ~ Frank Sinatra
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“Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks–it says, Goodbye.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. – Voltaire Do be do be do.” ~ 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
- “Cock your hat – angles are attitudes.” ~ 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
- “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 -
“The best revenge is massive success.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “I’m gonna live till I die.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.” ~ Frank Sinatra , Frank Sinatra quotes about life
- “May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s married. By then it’s too late.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “The record shows, I took the blows. And did it my way.” ~ Frank Sinatra
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“A friend is never an imposition.” ~ 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 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 , Frank Sinatra quotes on songs
- “A simple I love you means more than money.” ~ 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
- “Basically, I’m for anything that gets you through the night – be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.” ~ Frank Sinatra
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“The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can’t understand what is being said or heard?” ~ 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
- “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
- “There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I’ll show you a hundred retrogressions…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 absolution on Sunday—count me out.” ~ Frank Sinatra
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“For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.” ~ 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 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
- “You gotta love livin’, baby, ’cause dyin’ is a pain in the ass.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “The only male singer who I’ve seen besides myself and who’s better than me–that is Michael Jackson.” ~ 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
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“Dare to wear the foolish clown face.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I’m honest.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal to achieve a plane you’re looking for. But if you find that it’s important enough, then you do it. You have to decide. Even when you figure you’ve given up a great deal to get a small amount of something, the pain is only there for a short time. It really goes away. Whatever the quandary, it leaves you.” ~ Frank Sinatra
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“I’m for whatever gets you through the night” ~ 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
- “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
- “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 over acute capacity for sadness as well as elation.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “Fear is the enemy of logic.” ~ 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
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“Nothing anybody’s said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.” ~ 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 saying, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”” ~ 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 , Frank Sinatra quotes about music
- “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 - “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
- “[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
- “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
