Top 100 Frank Sinatra Quotes
#1. Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.
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#2. 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.
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#3. Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.
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#5. People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.
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#7. If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you.
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#8. Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
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#9. The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me
that is Michael Jackson.
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#10. What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?
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#11. 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.
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#12. I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-
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#13. It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.
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#15. You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
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#16. [Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.
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#17. May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
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#19. For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.
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#20. Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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
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#23. The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
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#24. Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
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#25. You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad
if you're indifferent, Endsville.
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#27. 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.
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#28. I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
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#29. 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.
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#30. Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.
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#31. 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.
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#33. What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?
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#34. You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile.
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#36. A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.
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#39. 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.
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#40. The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
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#41. You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.
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#42. If I had done everything I'm credited with, I'd be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.
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#47. Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.
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#48. 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.
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#49. That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.
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#50. In Hoboken, when I was a kid, I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood.
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#52. 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.
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#53. For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.
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#54. My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.
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#56. 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.
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#57. I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
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#58. 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.
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#59. I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.
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#60. 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. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.
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#62. 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.
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#63. I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.
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#65. Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
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#66. At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.
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#67. ....A simple I love you means more than money....
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#68. Regrets, I've had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
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#69. When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
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#70. 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
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#71. 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."
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#72. Fairy tales can come true
It can happen to you
If you're young at heart
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#73. Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac ... It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.
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#74. I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!
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#75. You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.
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#76. 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.
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#77. 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.
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#78. Ya gotta love livin', pally, cuz dyin's a pain in the ass!
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#79. 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.
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#80. Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
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#81. 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.
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#82. All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.
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#83. 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.
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#85. 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
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#86. 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.
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#87. Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
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#88. 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.
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#89. Look down - look down that lonesome road
Before you travel on
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#90. Start spreading the news, I am leaving today.
I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.
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#91. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.
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#92. 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
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#93. As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public.
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#94. 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.
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#95. The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.
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#96. You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.
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#97. The record shows, I took the blows . And did it my way.
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#98. 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.
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#99. Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.
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#100. Don't hide your scars. They make you who you are
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