Frank Sinatra Quotations | Page 2

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad--if you're indifferent, Endsville.

You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It's all over. Good night.

All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.

What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?

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

With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

I think that if you do the best you can in your life, you get your just reward. You sometimes give up a great deal to achieve a plane you're looking for. But if you find that it's important enough, then you do it. You have to decide. Even when you figure you've given up a great deal to get a small amount of something, the pain is only there for a short time. It really goes away. Whatever the quandary, it leaves you....

Regrets, I've had a few but then again too few to mention. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Look down - look down that lonesome road Before you travel on

Way down among Brazilians. Coffee beans grow by the billions. So they've got to find those extra cups to fill. They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil