Frank Sinatra Greatest Love Songs
“I consider myself among the luckiest people in the world to have been able to make a career out of what I love to do – interpret wonderful music. There’s nothing like loving what you do. For sixty years I’ve done what I loved most – sing. Fortunately for me, you were out there listening. Together we got through the good times and the bad. Pretty good arrangement (you should pardon the pun). I drink to you. May you live to be a hundred, and may the last voice you hear be mine.”
“The reading of a song is vital. The written word is first; always be first. Not belittling the music, but it is really a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it.”
“The songwriters in my days were of a different nature. For instance, Larry Hart wrote the most sophisticated saloon kind of songs; there was always a bit of bittersweet and sadness in them. Cole Porter had that marvelous clip type of rhymes. Johnny Mercer had great humor in his music. Every one of those men, all the songwriters, are so responsible for my career. Sammy Cahn is always there for me; he has written some very poignant lyrics in his career; touching and loving type of songs. “All The Way” is a marvelous song.”
“Sinatra learned how to do that singing, and it really had a romantic, almost sexual kind of connotation. It was very, very seductive, a fact well known to women as well as to the men who took them to concerts. There simply had been noting else like it before him.” – Sammy Cahn
“It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. I think being jilted is one of life’s most painful experiences. It’s happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.”
“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 admire them. But like all men, I don’t understand them.”
“If I had as many love affairs as you have give me credit for. I’d now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.”
“I get an audience involved, personally involved, in a song because I’m involved myself. It’s not something I do deliberately. I can’t help myself.”
“I san so well because I felt the lyric
here
and here
and here
.
Whatever the man was trying to say in the song –
I’d be there. And back.
I knew what it was all about.”
“If the song is a lament about the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss, and I cry out the loneliness. Being an eighteen-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overactive capacity for sadness as well as elation.”
“If Sinatra sings it, you can be sure it is about the essential dilemma of getting through the night, of relations between men and women, of insecurities, of the sadness that is shared by whole generations at certain times – the large themes that are not reported but are sung. There are not news matters. These are the matters that matter.” – Gay Talese
“They usually say that an artist is as good as his material, and I think that in 9 of 10 cases that holds true. If you’re lucky enough to get a great love song you’re ahead of the game.
“He was the epitome of what singing was all about: beautiful sound, smooth as silk, effortless, impeccable phrasing, intelligent and full of heart.” – Barbra Streisand
“I think people admire anyone who can get up and sing a love song.”
“What makes certain love songs great? integrity, simplicity, warmth and character.”
“I consider myself among the luckiest people in the world to have been able to make a career out of what I love to do – interpret wonderful music. There’s nothing like loving what you do. For sixty years I’ve done what I loved most – sing. Fortunately for me, you were out there listening. Together we got through the good times and the bad. Pretty good arrangement (you should pardon the pun). I drink to you. May you live to be a hundred, and may the last voice you hear be mine.”
“The reading of a song is vital. The written word is first; always be first. Not belittling the music, but it is really a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it.”
“The songwriters in my days were of a different nature. For instance, Larry Hart wrote the most sophisticated saloon kind of songs; there was always a bit of bittersweet and sadness in them. Cole Porter had that marvelous clip type of rhymes. Johnny Mercer had great humor in his music. Every one of those men, all the songwriters, are so responsible for my career. Sammy Cahn is always there for me; he has written some very poignant lyrics in his career; touching and loving type of songs. “All The Way” is a marvelous song.”
“Sinatra learned how to do that
“It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. I think being jilted is one of life’s most painful experiences. It’s happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.”
“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 admire them. But like all men, I don’t understand them.”
“If I had as many love affairs as you have give me credit for. I’d now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.”
“I get an audience involved, personally involved, in a song because I’m involved myself. It’s not something I do deliberately. I can’t help myself.”
“I san so well because I felt the lyric
here
and here
and here
Whatever the man was trying to say in the song –
I’d be there. And back.
I knew what it was all about.”
“If the song is a lament about the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss, and I cry out the loneliness. Being an eighteen-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overactive capacity for sadness as well as elation.”
“If Sinatra sings it, you can be sure it is about the essential dilemma of getting through the night, of relations between men and women, of insecurities, of the sadness that is shared by whole generations at certain times – the large themes that are not reported but are sung. There are not news matters. These are the matters that matter.” – Gay Talese
“They usually say that an artist is as good as his material, and I think that in 9 of 10 cases that holds true. If you’re lucky enough to get a great love song you’re ahead of the game.
“He was the epitome of what singing was all about: beautiful sound, smooth as silk, effortless, impeccable phrasing, intelligent and full of heart.” – Barbra Streisand
“I think people admire anyone who can get up and sing a love song.”
“What makes certain love songs great? integrity, simplicity, warmth and character.”
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