Tony Bennett Quotes

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• I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to…
• I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
• To work is to feel alive.
• I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
• Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I…
• 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 to…
• Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.
• More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.
• The young people look great on television. They’re youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can…
• That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my…
• I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.
• Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do…
• My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do
• If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.
• "Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.
• I plan to do my next two albums with Lady Gaga . She is quite a talent.
• I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell…
• I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.
• I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the…
• If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

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