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" Every show is different. The public has always been nice to me. I'm fortunate that way. "
Tony Bennett
Always
Way
Show
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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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" The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized. "
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" I lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, and I still can't believe that the handsomest man in the world, Cary Grant, and the greatest performer in the world, Fred Astaire, and Johnny Carson, one after another - they were all in my home at different times. I celebrated my 50th birthday with them. Unforgettable. "
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" Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you. "
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" I still feel that I can get better somehow. And I search for it all of the time. "
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" The high point for me in my career was when Sinatra called me his favourite performer in the Fifties. And I've been sold out ever since. "
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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 live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so. "
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Great
" I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world. "
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Still
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" To me, life is a gift, and it's a blessing to just be alive. And each person should learn what a gift it is to be alive no matter how tough things get. "
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Gift
Tough
Me
" I get up, and boy, I can't wait to paint and study music and keep learning. I just love it. "
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Wait
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" 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 very balanced. "
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Rest
Night
Me
" I had the greatest time of my life in England for a couple of years, and Robert Farnon made some of the best music I've ever been around. "
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Best
Years
Time
" When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you're right there at that moment. It's true to reality. And the closer it gets, once it gets too technical, it becomes very tinny to hear notes. It doesn't sound right. It has to be natural. "
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Reality
Great
Moment
" I'd like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you've become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better. "
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You
Care
Better
" I've never worked a day in my life. "
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Never
Life
My Life
" I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature. "
Tony Bennett
Nature
You
Top
" Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you had the best. Harold Arlen was just fantastic. Cole Porter was better than anybody, and Gershwin was Gershwin, y'know. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole. "
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Clever
You
Better
" As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn. "
Tony Bennett
Live
Learn
Boy
" It's a great thing that the United States has given the rest of the world - no other country has given such great popular music to the Far East and Europe. When I play those great countries, a lot of times, the audience starts singing the songs with me. They know them. They love them. "
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Great
World
Singing
" My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things. "
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Singing
Life
" When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art. "
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Tell
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" It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else. "
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Be Yourself
Just
Simple
" 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 called 'Major Bowes' Amateur Hour.' The winning group on the evening of September 8, 1935, was called the Hoboken Four, and their spokesman was Frank Sinatra, then aged 19. "
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Group
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Week
" The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period. It stopped in 1950. "
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1920s
United States
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" When Sinatra said, 'For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer I've ever heard,' it changed my career completely. He was my best friend, and I was his best friend... but I was never part of the Rat Pack. "
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Career
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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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" I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause. "
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Audience
You
Mistake
" Singing is a gift. "
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Gift
Singing
" I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique. "
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