241 Quotes by Frank Sinatra

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world – to an individual or to a nation.

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.

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.

You better get busy living, because dying’s a pain in the ass.

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

There are moments when it’s too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That’s when you know there’s something lacking in your life. You just know.

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.

To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. – Voltaire Do be do be do.