Quotes By Frank Sinatra

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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