Frank Sinatra Quotes - Page 3

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• I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

  Frank Sinatra

  Strong Women, Intelligent, Staring

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• 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

  Numbers, People, Reviews

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• 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

  Mean, Opportunity, People

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• Never yawn in front of a lady.

  Frank Sinatra

  Respect, Fronts

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• I want to be buried with a Zippo, a roll of dimes & a bottle of Jack!

  Frank Sinatra

  Dimes, Bottles, Want

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• 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

  Music, Ideas, Voice

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• Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

  Frank Sinatra

  Faces, Foolish, Clown

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• The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.

  Frank Sinatra

  Light, Helping, Forget

  Song: Learnin' the Blues

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• Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

  Frank Sinatra

  Music, Prayer, Night

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• 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

  Song, Reading, Needs

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• I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

  Frank Sinatra

  Ambition, Thinking, Life Is

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• I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

  Frank Sinatra

  Culture, Embodiment, Singers

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• 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

  Love, School, Credit

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• There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in his name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions…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—count me out.

  Frank Sinatra

  Sunday, Men, Blood

  Interview with Joe Hyams, Playboy magazine, February 1963.

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• I am a thing of beauty.

  Frank Sinatra

  Beauty

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• What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?

  Frank Sinatra

  Walrus

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• The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me--that is Michael Jackson.

  Frank Sinatra

  Males, Singers

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• Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Silly, Wonderful

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• Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

  Frank Sinatra

  Music, Believe, Jazz

  "And I Quote: The Definitive Collecton of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker". Book by Ashton Applewhite, 2003.

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• 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

  Thinking, Done, World

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• 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.

  Frank Sinatra

  Cat, Secret, Goes On

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• [Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

  Frank Sinatra

  Team, Drinking, Drunk

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• You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

  Frank Sinatra

  Dames, Treats

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• 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

  Eye, Player, Liberty

  Interview with Joe Hyams, reprints.longform.org. February 1963.

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• I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal to achieve a plane you're looking for. But if you find that it's important enough, then you do it. You have to decide. Even when you figure you've given up a great deal to get a small amount of something, the pain is only there for a short time. It really goes away. Whatever the quandary, it leaves you.

  Frank Sinatra

  Life, Giving Up, Pain

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