A biography for Frank Sinatrahasn’t been written yet.
“Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.”
“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.”
“Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.”
“Dare to wear the foolish clown face.”
“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.”
“The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.”
“I'm for whatever gets you through the night.”
“I'm gonna live till I die.”
“I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.”
“I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.”
“You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.”
“A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.”
“I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.”
“The best revenge is massive success.”
“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.”
“Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.”
“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”
“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.”
“My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.”
“Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.”