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

The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been…

— 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 still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

— Tony Bennett

Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.

— Tony Bennett

Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.

— Tony Bennett

I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality.

— 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

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

— Tony Bennett

It's a great thing that the United States has given the rest of the world - no other country has given such…

— 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

In America, at the beginning of talkies, they pulled Fred Astaire from the theaters and put him on the screen and had…

— Tony Bennett

I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

— Tony Bennett

I've been very fortunate. I'm doing what I love, and I'm getting away with it, you know?

— 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

I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs. So they…

— Tony Bennett

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much…

— Tony Bennett

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

— Tony Bennett

I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

— Tony Bennett

To me, life is a gift, and it's a blessing to just be alive. And each person should learn what a gift…

— Tony Bennett

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a…

— Tony Bennett

It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.

— Tony Bennett

Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I…

— Tony Bennett

“Alongside the wide participation in everyday reading of newspapers and magazines, the era of 'mass reading' of books that characterised the period…

— Tony Bennett