Tony Bennett

Singing is a gift.

— Tony Bennett

I've never worked a day in my life.

— Tony Bennett

To work is to feel alive.

— Tony Bennett

If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.

— Tony Bennett

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.

— Tony Bennett

I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.

— Tony Bennett

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

— Tony Bennett

Never treat the audience disrespectfully.

— Tony Bennett

If something is good, it's always good. You don't have to change it.

— Tony Bennett

No matter what age you are, there's a lot of room for learning.

— Tony Bennett

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

— Tony Bennett

Gaga is a gorgeous singer, and when she sings a great ballad, I get goose bumps.

— Tony Bennett

I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.

— Tony Bennett

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

— Tony Bennett

The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized.

— Tony Bennett

Every day feels like just starting out because I still have so much more to learn.

— Tony Bennett

When you get older, you don't have to eat a lot. I get my rest and sleep very well at night. It…

— Tony Bennett

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.

— Tony Bennett

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

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

Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what…

— Tony Bennett

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you…

— Tony Bennett

I was taught never to compromise: to never sing a cheap song. I never look down at the audience and think that…

— Tony Bennett

I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs. Today,…

— Tony Bennett

Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong…

— Tony Bennett

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

When Sinatra said, 'For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer I've ever heard,' it changed my career completely. He was…

— Tony Bennett

My whole premise has been, right from the beginning, that it would take me a lifetime to learn to explain myself as…

— Tony Bennett

I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop…

— Tony Bennett

For many years, I've always been attached to what they call the Great American Songbook, and Kern was a great leader of…

— Tony Bennett

I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb…

— Tony Bennett

Every week, as an 11-year-old kid, I would tune in to what was really the first American Idol-type program, a radio show…

— Tony Bennett

I think there's an opportunity for a couple of them for sure, maybe more depending upon the situation, but it's too early…

— Tony Bennett

Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you…

— Tony Bennett

It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and…

— Tony Bennett

If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place.

— Tony Bennett

It helps to know there is going to be continuity.

— Tony Bennett

The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people.

— Tony Bennett

I always feel the audience is my best teacher.

— Tony Bennett

I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent.

— Tony Bennett