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Tony Bennett has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
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To work is to feel alive.
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I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
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Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a…
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It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and…
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Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way…
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More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.
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The young people look great on television. They’re youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them…
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That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe.…
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I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.
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Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And…
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Popular Count Basie quotes from across the collection:
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I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has…
— Dave Brubeck
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I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed…
— Count Basie
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More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.
— Tony Bennett
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I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that…
— Quincy Jones
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And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands…
— Buddy Rich
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Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.
— Clark Terry
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When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in…
— Dan Hill
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