Frank Sinatra was more than just a talented actor and singer. He is revered as one of the biggest ladies men of his time and a pretty big drinker as you’ll learn from some of the 25 Greatest Frank Sinatra Quotes. Sinatra also holds a place near and dear to the hearts of New Jersey and New York, two places he spent much of his time, one of which he was born in.
“He was America’s greatest vocalist: a consummate artist who redefined the possibilities of popular music, bringing to it an intimacy, an urban swagger and an emotional vulnerability that stamped songs as indelibly his own,” according to The New York Times.
Check out our 25 Greatest Frank Sinatra Quotes below.
“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
“I’m for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle.”
“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.”
“Nothing anybody’s said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Cock your hat – angles are attitudes.”
“You better get busy living, because dying’s a pain in the ass.”
“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.”
“Rock ‘n’ roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written, for the most part, by cretinous goons. And, by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration, and sly, lewd and in plain fact, dirty lyrics … it manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.”
“I’m not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I’m not looking for the secret to life…. I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.”
“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.”
“Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.”
“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.”
“With each word, your tenderness grows, tearing my fears apart. And that laugh, that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart. Your lovely, with your smile so warm and your cheek so soft, there is nothing for me but to love you.”
“No man’s lifetime of work has better expressed the land of the free and the home of the brave. No man’s lifetime of work has given proof to the world that our flag is still there. John Wayne is in truth a star-spangled man whom so proudly we hail.”
“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.”
“I’m for decency — period. I’m for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday — cash me out.”
“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.”
“I detest bad manners. If people are polite, I am. They shouldn’t try to get away with not being polite to me.”
“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.”
“People who make a living off other people’s fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.”
“I drink to the confusion of our enemies”
“A friend is never an imposition.”
“Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I’m honest.”