Frank Sinatra, born in 1915, was an iconic American singer, actor, and producer. Rising to fame in the 1940s as a crooner, he became one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Sinatra’s smooth voice and impeccable phrasing led to numerous hits like “My Way” and “Fly Me to the Moon.” He excelled in various genres, including swing, jazz, and pop, collaborating with renowned arrangers and conductors. Alongside his music career, Sinatra found success in acting, winning an Academy Award for “From Here to Eternity” (1953). Known for his suave demeanor and stage presence, he left an indelible mark on popular culture. Sinatra passed away in 1998, but his legacy as one of the greatest entertainers of the 20th century endures, influencing generations of artists and fans worldwide.

Frank Sinatra Quotes

1. “The best revenge is massive success.”
— Frank Sinatra

2. “Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.”
— Frank Sinatra

3. “Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.”
— Frank Sinatra

4. “If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere; it’s up to you, New York, New York.”
— Frank Sinatra

5. “I’m gonna live till I die.”
— Frank Sinatra

6. “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
— Frank Sinatra

7. “You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.”
— Frank Sinatra

8. “And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain.”
— Frank Sinatra

9. “A simple “I love you” means more than money.”
— Frank Sinatra

10. “Regrets, I’ve had a few but then again too few to mention. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.”
— Frank Sinatra

11. “You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.”
— Frank Sinatra

12. “Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are.”
— Frank Sinatra

13. “Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
— Frank Sinatra

14. “For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.”
— Frank Sinatra

15. “I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”
— Frank Sinatra

16. “The best is yet to come and won’t that be fine.”
— Frank Sinatra

17. “Fear is the enemy of logic.”
— Frank Sinatra

18. “The record shows, I took the blows. And did it my way.”
— Frank Sinatra

19. “Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.”
— Frank Sinatra

20. “Don’t get even, get mad.”
— Frank Sinatra

21. “A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s married. By then it’s too late.”
— Frank Sinatra

22. “You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.”
— Frank Sinatra

23. “Don’t respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.”
— Frank Sinatra

24. “Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks – it says, Goodbye.”
— Frank Sinatra

25. “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.”
— Frank Sinatra

26. “I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.”
— Frank Sinatra

27. “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

28. “You only live once…”
— Frank Sinatra

29. “You better get busy living, because dying’s a pain in the ass.”
— Frank Sinatra

30. “Orange is the happiest color.”
— Frank Sinatra

31. “Dare to wear the foolish clown face.”
— Frank Sinatra

32. “I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.”
— Frank Sinatra

33. “All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.”
— Frank Sinatra

34. “Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can’t have one without the other.”
— Frank Sinatra

35. “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.”
— Frank Sinatra

36. “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.”
— Frank Sinatra

37. “To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. – Voltaire Do be do be do.”
— Frank Sinatra

38. “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.”
— Frank Sinatra

39. “What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.”
— Frank Sinatra

40. “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

41. “I’m for whatever gets you through the night.”
— Frank Sinatra

42. “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.”
— Frank Sinatra

43. “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.”
— Frank Sinatra

44. “People who make a living off other people’s fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.”
— Frank Sinatra

45. “May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”
— Frank Sinatra

46. “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.”
— Frank Sinatra

47. “The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.”
— Frank Sinatra

48. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe31. The best revenge is massive success.”
— Frank Sinatra

49. “Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.”
— Frank Sinatra

50. “Cock your hat – angles are attitudes.”
— Frank Sinatra

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

56. “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

57. “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

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

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

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

63. “For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.”
— Frank Sinatra

64. “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

65. “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

66. “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

67. “A friend is never an imposition.”
— Frank Sinatra

68. “I am a thing of beauty.”
— Frank Sinatra

69. “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

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

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

72. “When I sing, I believe. I’m honest.”
— Frank Sinatra

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

74. “You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.”
— Frank Sinatra

75. “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

76. “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

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

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

79. “Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.”
— Frank Sinatra

80. “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

81. “I’m just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.”
— Frank Sinatra

82. “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

83. “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

84. “The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.”
— Frank Sinatra

85. “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

86. “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

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

90. “Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.”
— Frank Sinatra

91. “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

92. “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

93. “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

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