Top 100 Quotes About Sinatra
#1. Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.
Frank Sinatra
#2. My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.
Allison Pearson
#3. You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.
Eddie Money
#4. For nobody else, gave me a thrill - with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you. - As sung by Frank Sinatra
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#5. It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
Nancy Sinatra
#6. I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
Nancy Sinatra
#7. I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Nancy Sinatra
#8. 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
#9. Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.
Quincy Jones
#10. I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.
U-God
#11. Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.
Frank Sinatra
#12. Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I've only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.
Don Rickles
#13. Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
Nancy Sinatra
#14. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life - in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God.
Frank Sinatra
#15. Go fuck yourself," I replied, always the lady. "I'm staying here.
Ava Gardner
#16. Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off.
Tony Bennett
#17. Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.
John Barry
#19. You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs.
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.
Celia Johnson
#21. No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'
Sophia Loren
#22. The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too.
Rich Cohen
#23. People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.
Frank Sinatra
#24. Pop was initially ignored as a moneymaker by the recording industry. In the seventies they were still relying on Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett for their big hits. You know, most of the budget for the record companies in those days went to the classical department - and those were big budget albums.
Tony Visconti
#25. 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
#26. Early '90s, I was big, big into Sinatra. I was in college. I was fascinated.
Joe Carnahan
#27. When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.
Quincy Jones
#28. Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel - only worse.
Anonymous
#30. If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it ... it possesses you.
Frank Sinatra
#31. Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Frank Sinatra
#32. I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself.
Michael Buble
#33. The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me
that is Michael Jackson.
Frank Sinatra
#34. The great thing about Google is that you type in neuro-surgery and somehow you end up with Peter Sellers or watching Frank Sinatra. Google is a great resource.
Gary Oldman
#35. I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.
Jon Bon Jovi
#36. Loss of mental function, taste for Frank Sinatra music, and similar degenerative effects.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#37. What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?
Frank Sinatra
#38. There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted to be another Michael Buble.
Michael Buble
#39. But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.
Chaka Khan
#40. You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
Frank Sinatra
#41. Louis Armstrong on Mondays, Frank Sinatra on Wednesdays, Glenn Miller on Fridays, and Mozart on Sundays. Unless it was raining. If it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday.
Clare Vanderpool
#43. The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised.
Justin Timberlake
#45. 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
#46. 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-
Frank Sinatra
#47. With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.
Groucho Marx
#48. 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
#50. You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
Frank Sinatra
#51. [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
#52. May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Frank Sinatra
#53. I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it.
Scott Baio
#55. Frank Sinatra told Floyd Paterson how he should whoop me. Frank Sinatra.
Muhammad Ali
#56. I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
Nancy Sinatra
#57. New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
Queen Latifah
#58. For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.
Frank Sinatra
#59. Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.
Frank Sinatra
#60. Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
Quincy Jones
#61. 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
#62. I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.
Frank Sinatra
#63. I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was.
Tony Bennett
#64. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.
Harry Connick Jr.
#65. Sinatra once said that the only two people he was ever afraid of were his mother and Tommy Dorsey - a flip comment but also a sincere and deeply significant one.
James Kaplan
#66. To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.
Linda Ronstadt
#67. 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
#68. To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra
Kurt Vonnegut
#69. When Frank Sinatra sings Stormy Weather, the flies and the spiders get along together.
Cake
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. I'm a Fool" may not be a great song, but Sinatra's shattering performance of it transcends the material. His emotion is so naked that we're at once embarrassed and compelled: we literally feel for him.
James Kaplan
#73. Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.
Anton Du Beke
#74. If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York.
Frank Sinatra
#75. What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.
Harmony Korine
#76. The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
Frank Sinatra
#77. I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were American men who don't exist anymore. But there are ugly things about them, too.
Brandon Flowers
#78. I had an opportunity to be in Frank's [Sinatra] circle, but I couldn't take advantage of it because I couldn't get over how awed I was by him. It was so uncomfortable for me because he meant so much to me, but I just couldn't be myself, so I fled rather than having those great nights hanging out.
Ron Perlman
#79. Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all.
Steve Erickson
#80. Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
Lorna Luft
#81. Let's Face it, - Sinatra is a king. He's a very sharp operator, a keen record chief, and has a keen appreciation of what the public wants.
Bing Crosby
#82. 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
#83. Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Frank Sinatra
#84. 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
#86. 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
#88. My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you ... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'
Hugh Jackman
#89. When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.
Bruce Springsteen
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.
Quincy Jones
#93. I had a lot of fun with Frank Sinatra, because he was such a hooligan, and so to himself, he was the king, and everything was his way, and I enjoyed watching that.
Debbie Reynolds
#95. Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
Leif Garrett
#96. Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?
Chrissie Hynde
#97. I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.
Ken Curtis
#98. I'd like to have a kid, but I'd probably get a Frank Sinatra Jr. instead of a Gilbert Gottfried Jr. I'd totally screw up like that.
Gilbert Gottfried
#99. Here's the mark that a lot of people miss nowadays. Producers missed. They leave out the heart and soul. And that's what I learned from Sammy Davis, Jr., from Frank Sinatra, is when you went to go see those shows, you got to know them.
Donny Osmond
#100. I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables.
Sirio Maccioni
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