Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers". His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He signed with Capitol Records and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records (finding success with albums such as Ring-A-Ding-Ding, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, and fraternized with the Rat Pack and President John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s. Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, and scored hits with "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way". Sinatra attempted to weather the changing tastes in popular music, but with dwindling album sales and after appearing in several poorly received films, he retired in 1971. Coming out of retirement in 1973, he recorded several albums, scoring a hit with "(Theme From) New York, New York" in 1980, and toured both within the United States and internationally until a few years before his death in 1998.
The critic Stephen Holden wrote that
"Sinatra was...the first modern pop superstar...Following his idol Bing Crosby, who had pioneered the use of the microphone, Sinatra transformed popular singing by infusing lyrics with a personal, intimate point of view that conveyed a steady current of eroticism...Almost singlehandedly, he helped lead a revival of vocalized swing music that took American pop to a new level of musical sophistication...his 1950's recordings...were instrumental in establishing a canon of American pop song literature."
“Ya gotta love livin', pally, cuz dyin's a pain in the ass!”
“Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are”
“The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.”
“You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.”
“The best is yet to come.”
“(While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If your name is John Doe, and you work night and day doing things for your helpless neighbors, what you get for your effort is tired. So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe, and all of you who give of yourselves, to those who carry too big a burden to make it on their own, I want you to reach out and take your share of this...Because if I have earned it, so too have you.”
“You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.”
“For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.”
“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. ”
“For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.”
“The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.”
“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”
“Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.”
“That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.”
“....A simple I love you means more than money....”
“The best revenge is massive success.”
“When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.”
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
“I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day-”
“I'm gonna live till I die.”
“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”