I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe.… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs. Today,… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Presley is country music, white music. Jazz is black music - it was invented by the blacks in New Orleans. And I'm… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
It's a great thing that the United States has given the rest of the world - no other country has given such… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older. — Tony Bennett Copy Share
I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs. — Tony Bennett Copy Share
I think there's an opportunity for a couple of them for sure, maybe more depending upon the situation, but it's too early to say… — Tony Bennett Copy Share
It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had… — Tony Bennett Copy Share
When you get older, you don't have to eat a lot. I get my rest and sleep very well at night. It keeps me… — Tony Bennett Copy Share
Nobody has communicated with the public more than Lady Gaga. Ever. I trust the audience, and I'm very impressed. As far as they're concerned,… — Tony Bennett Copy Share
Performers should really go to the best schools, like Lady Gaga, you know, she went to NYU and had great teachers... It's best to… — Tony Bennett Copy Share
I was possessed with a wonderful example of my Italian American family. They would come over and join us every Sunday, all my aunts… — Tony Bennett Copy Share
Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I… — Tony Bennett Copy Share
I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique. — Tony Bennett Copy Share
More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform. — Tony Bennett Copy Share
I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was. — Tony Bennett Copy Share
I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43.… — Tony Bennett Copy Share
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