Frank Sinatra Quotes - Page 2

For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.

A simple I love you means more than money.

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.

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.

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.

The best revenge is massive success.

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 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.

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

Orange is the happiest color.

A friend is never an imposition.

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

What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?

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

Fear is the enemy of logic.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.