Frank Sinatra Quotes - Page 5

And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.

Here's to the confusion of our enemies!

Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

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.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

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.

Don't get even, get mad.

That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.

Start spreading the news, I am leaving today. I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

(While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If your name is John Doe, and you work night and day doing things for your helpless neighbors, what you get for your effort is tired. So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe, and all of you who give of yourselves, to those who carry too big a burden to make it on their own, I want you to reach out and take your share of this...Because if I have earned it, so too have you.

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.

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.

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.

If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York.

Look down - look down that lonesome road Before you travel on

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.

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.

As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public.

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.