Top 90 Frank Sinatra Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.”

— Frank Sinatra

52. “Card players have a saying: “It’s all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck” – which is another way of saving, “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.””

— Frank Sinatra

53. “Basically, I’m for anything that gets you through the night – be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.”

— Frank Sinatra

54. “Never yawn in front of a lady.”

— Frank Sinatra

55. “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

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

— Frank Sinatra

57. “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.”

— Frank Sinatra

58. “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.”

— Frank Sinatra

59. “You’ve either got or you haven’t got style, and if you’ve got it you stand out a mile.”

— Frank Sinatra

60. “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

61. “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.”

— Frank Sinatra

62. “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.”

— Frank Sinatra

63. “I’m just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.”

— Frank Sinatra

64. “I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn’t be a staring contest.”

— Frank Sinatra

65. “For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.”

— Frank Sinatra

66. “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

67. “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

68. “A friend is never an imposition.”

— Frank Sinatra

69. “I am a thing of beauty.”

— Frank Sinatra

70. “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.”

— Frank Sinatra

71. “Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I’m honest.”

— Frank Sinatra

72. “Only sing – don’t do cheap songs, don’t do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.”

— Frank Sinatra

73. “When I sing, I believe. I’m honest.”

— Frank Sinatra

74. “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.”

— Frank Sinatra

75. “The only male singer who I’ve seen besides myself and who’s better than me – that is Michael Jackson.”

— Frank Sinatra

76. “You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.”

— Frank Sinatra

77. “Way down among Brazilians. Coffee beans grow by the billions. So they’ve got to find those extra cups to fill. They’ve got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil.”

— Frank Sinatra

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

— Frank Sinatra

79. “Rock ’n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.”

— Frank Sinatra

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

— Frank Sinatra

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

— Frank Sinatra

82. “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

83. “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.”

— Frank Sinatra

84. “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

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

— Frank Sinatra

86. “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.”

— Frank Sinatra

87. “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

88. “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.”

— Frank Sinatra

89. “Nothing anybody’s said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.”

— Frank Sinatra

90. “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

91. “Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.”

— Frank Sinatra

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.”

— Frank Sinatra

93. “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

94. “If I had done everything I’m credited with, I’d be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.”

— Frank Sinatra

95. “Now there’s a grown-up swinging town.”

— Frank Sinatra

96. “Here’s to the confusion of our enemies!”

— Frank Sinatra

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

— Frank Sinatra

98. “What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can’t understand what is being said or heard?”

— Frank Sinatra

99. “I’m mad about good books, can’t get my fill .”

— Frank Sinatra