Frank Sinatra

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

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

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

Change is always happening. That’s one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.

There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.

I’m always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art, instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

[In 1969] I think lyrics have always been important to any serious writer of music.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we’ve forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We’ve separated music from life.

You’ve got to learn your instrument.

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

My singing evolved with a feeling of intense relaxation, always using my diaphram and breathing specifically through my nose.

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch and really personal and deeply felt music.

A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don’t do that on stage.

It’s not that you want to sing, it’s that you have to sing.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

I’m an interpreter of stories. When I perform it’s like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.