Frank Sinatra Music Quotations

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.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

I'm gonna live till I die.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

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.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

The martial music of every side burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

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.