Knew Early Quotes by Tony Bennett

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

— Tony Bennett

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

— Tony Bennett

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

— 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.

— Tony Bennett

More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

— Tony Bennett

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

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