I think my greatest ambition in life i... - Frank sinatra - Quotes.Pub

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

Ambition Quotes

Frank sinatra Quotes

What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can’t understand what is being said or heard?

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.

Here’s to the confusion of our enemies!

Now there’s a grown-up swinging town.

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

I don’t know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.

If I had done everything I’m credited with, I’d be speaking to you from a laboratory jar at Harvard.

It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don’t want that to die with me.

There are several things I think I would have done if I had the chance again. I would have been a little more patient about getting out into the world. I would have seen to it that I had a more formal education. I would have become an accomplished mu.

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

Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was “honest.”

Nothing anybody’s said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

At heart, I guess I’m a saloon singer because there’s a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let’s just say that the place isn’t important, as long as everybody has a good time.

It was a staggering moment when I first heard the news. Lennon was a most talented man and above all, a gentle soul. John and his colleagues set a high standard by which contemporary music continues to be measured.

If I had as many love affairs as I’ve been given credit for, I’d be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing – if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

I’m just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

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.

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.

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

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

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

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