Quotes from Frank Sinatra

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

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.

That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.

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

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.

It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

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

I'm not unmindful of man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

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.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

I am a thing of beauty.

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.

I'm for whatever gets you through the night.

Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.

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.

And heaven knows I took the blows and did it my way.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.