You have to be able to look back at your life and say, “Yeah, that was fun.”
If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That’s publicity, man.
Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there’s a good quality in the presentation.
You name it and I’ve done it. I’d like to say I did it my way. But that line, I’m afraid, belongs to someone else.
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn’t do soul food.
After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don’t have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
The ultimate mystery is one’s own self.
Imitations only better the original.
Ten million dollars after I’d become a star I was deeply in debt.
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you’d been able to avoid hearing before.
Once I get outside my house in the morning, I’m on.
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.
The civil rights movement wasn’t easy for anybody.
I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
If you want to be the best, baby, you’ve got to work harder than anybody else.