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Death
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You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
-Frank Sinatra
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I'm gonna live till I die.
-Frank Sinatra
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Drinking
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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
-Frank Sinatra
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Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
-Frank Sinatra
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Family
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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.
-Frank Sinatra
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Luck
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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.
-Frank Sinatra
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Music
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The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
-Frank Sinatra
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Singing
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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.
-Frank Sinatra, In Frank Sinatra by Nancy Sinatra, 1985
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Success & Failure
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The best revenge is massive success.
-Frank Sinatra
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Women
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I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
-Frank Sinatra
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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.
-Frank Sinatra
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Books by and about Frank Sinatra