Quotes By Frank Sinatra

I'm mad about good books, can't get my fill .

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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