Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatrawas an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. Sinatra's music has been considered timeless by many. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants, he began his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. He found success as a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth12 December 1915
CityHoboken, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.
I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life -- in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God. But I don't believe in a personal God to whom I look for comfort or for a natural on the next roll of the dice.
Rock 'n' roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written, for the most part, by cretinous goons. And, by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration, and sly, lewd and in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... it manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.
....A simple I love you means more than money....
Even Frankie boy, when he was appearing at Caesars, flew back to Palm Springs every night.
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.
I would be honored just to be the pillow upon which this courageous man lays down to rest his head.
riding high in April, shot down in May.
Sinatra has had a long and wide association with hoodlums and racketeers, which seems to be continuing.
She never had an unkind word for Jack. And the time she stabbed him, it was an accident. She was in his office and she reached for the revolver, the knife slipped out.
Luck is only important insofar 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
With each word, your tenderness grows, tearing my fears apart. And that laugh, that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart. Your lovely, with your smile so warm and your cheek so soft, there is nothing for me but to love you.
To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .
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 instruments