Frank Sinatra Quotes

• If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Song
  • Tears
  • Ovation

• I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Singer
  • Frank Sinatra

• I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel...and that's what I've been doing all my life.

  

  Count Basie
  • Life
  • Business
  • City

• Frank Sinatra told Floyd Paterson how he should whoop me. Frank Sinatra.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Told
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Whoop

• I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Painting

• We were working... with Frank Sinatra. He was in the main room, and we were in the lounge. It was a real thrill to meet and actually become friends with people like Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin. They were all working the Sands at that time... and Bill and I became... well, not close friends, but at least acquaintances where they knew us by name, and most of them just called us the righteous boys.

  

  Robert Lee Hatfield
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Development
  • Died
  • Frank Sinatra

• I got one entire song from fortune cookies. On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.

  

  Mike Patton Faith No More
  • Stole
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Piece of Paper

• My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Dad
  • Dollar
  • Autograph

• One time we were having dinner and some guy came by and took a potato off of Frank Sinatra's plate. And Frank said, “Hey pal, are you hungry?” The guy says, “yeah.” Frank said, “Sit down.” And he gave him his dinner. I thought for sure there was gonna be trouble from the guys surrounding Frank, but Frank says, “Jeez, relax, the man's hungry.”

  

  Joey Bishop
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Trouble

• There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Bad

• I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were American men who don't exist anymore. But there are ugly things about them, too.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Live
  • Ghosts
  • Elvis

• I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Sing
  • I Wish
  • Frank Sinatra

• Frank Sinatra turns 100 this year and his music has been a major player in the soundtrack of my life. So it's only right that I return the favor and pay it forward.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Player
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Soundtrack

• I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

  

  Celia Johnson
  • Write
  • Affair
  • Do Not

• Saint Christopher, who said, Where can I get a Frank Sinatra medal? Never got a dinner!

  

  Red Buttons
  • Dinner
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Christopher

• The funny thing is that the studio that we recorded in was the same studio that Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole used to warm up their voices in before they went across the street to CBS Radio. The owner has preserved it exactly the way it was in 1925. It was such a perfect coincidence that we were doing music inspired by that stuff in that room. It was incredible.

  

  Hamilton Leithauser
  • Nat King Cole
  • Bing Crosby
  • CBS Radio

• Frank Sinatra attention span was not long, shall we say.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Frank Sinatra

• Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Shoulder
  • Frank Sinatra